MANUSCRIPT. – Sara Jane MATHERS. [A hand-written diary by a nurse of the Territorial Force Nursing Service working for the 34 Ambulance Train in France towards the end of the First World War. N.p.:] France: June 1918-September 1919, manuscript, 8vo (218 x 167mm.) 45pp. in a mostly legible single hand relating to the almost daily movements of the 34 Ambulance train in France with brief mention of activities, medical and recreational, personnel etc. until demobilisation on 4th April 1919 and returning home to Ipswich where the entries are more social and local, numerous blank leaves to rear. (Toning.) Original card wrappers (browned, corner creases, small tears). Note: Sara Mathers was clearly an experienced and well qualified nurse and her entries for ‘loading’ and ‘unloading’ the soldiers are brief and succinct. She mentions the very worst of the injuries (‘got entangled with the propeller driver..’) and occasional gossip (‘Sister Ferguson reported Major Brown for not calling us’) and some social life, too (‘Played gramophone evening, very good night’) but interestingly there is no mention of the armistice on 11th November, or any mention of the war ending. – And with eight of Sara Jane Mather’s medical training certificates.