This is one of the most powerful descriptions of the scourge of the First World War by a woman who was on the front lines and ultimately gave her life for the cause.

Sarah Broom Macnaughtan volunteered with the Red Cross Society when World War One broke out, and that is when she started keeping a record of what she saw.

In September 1914 she travelled to Antwerp in Belgium as part of an ambulance unit, and as Head of the Orderlies she was witness to hundreds of wounded and dying men passing through her hospital.

Her and her staff desperately tried to help them as best they could despite limited resources, and bombs falling all around them.

For her bravery and work under fire in Belgium, she eventually received the Order of Leopold.

This is the story of her life during the First World War.

Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (26 October 1864 – 24 July 1916) was a Scottish-born novelist. Sarah participated in the women's suffrage movement, aided victims of the Balkan war, performed social services for the poor in London's East End, and worked for the Red Cross during the Second Boer War. During the outbreak of the First World War, she volunteered with the Red Cross Society. Her novels include ‘Selah Harrison’, ‘The fortune of Christina M'Nab,’ ‘A lame dog's diary and The expensive Miss Du Cane.

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