Silence For the Dead

by Simone St. James

Selfishness is pre-eminently a defect which disqualifies a woman from the nursing profession. —Eva Luckes, Matron of London Hospital, 1880–1919

So much is written about the war nowadays, and in proportion so little of it strikes a right and wholesome note—and yet it is so clear. It is nothing but an intimately personal tragedy to every British (and German) soldier concerned in the fighting part of it. —Private A. R. Williams, in a letter home, October 1916. Killed in action at Ypres, August 1917