Dorothea's War: A First World War Nurse Tells Her Story

In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly-trained Red Cross nurse received instructions to leave for Le Treport in northern France. Dorothea began writing a diary. She would go on to record some of the worst tragedy of the First World War, though somehow always maintaining her optimism, curiosity and high spirits throughout. Nearly a 100 years on, what shines out from these extraordinarily evocative diaries is a courageous, spirited, compassionate young woman.