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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Lady Dorothie Feilding at war
    sub title: 'right at the heart and pulse of things'
  name:
    name part: Cluley, Christine M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 285 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
  abstract: Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore MM was a British heiress who became a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War. The first woman to be awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field, she also received the Croix de Guerre and the Order of Leopold II from the Belgians. Christine Cluley has liaised with members of the surviving family and been granted access to material beyond that available from the Feilding Archives. Dorothie's family have generously shared personal recollections and allowed Christine access to previously unpublished material. These vivid letters reveal Lady Dorothie in her own words, allowing the reader to share her thoughts and actions directly. We see how being part of a loving family in a secure, upper-class household prepared her for the challenges, dangers and deprivations of the First World War and, early in her marriage, the potentially dangerous years in Ireland during the 1920s. Lady Dorothie was a heroine, but this account of her life reveals that she is more than a plaster saint, that she was a fully rounded woman, by turns determined, courageous, amusing and acerbic. After two years in the hell of the Western Front, she went home to get married and after a very brief honeymoon, Lady D was back behind the wheel of an ambulance, ferrying the wounded around London.
  table of contents: Life before the Great War -- Getting the show on the road -- In the thick of it -- Old Albert's bit of tin -- Rather a rag lately, back aches & things -- Goodbye to the Marins -- A new friend, shells, fleas and a field of poppies -- Another medal and proposals of marriage -- declined -- Another proposal -- accepted -- Life after Flanders.
  note: Christine M. Cluley.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Feilding, Dorothie
      name part: 1889-1935
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    genre: Personal narratives, British
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Medical care
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Participation, Female
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Campaigns
    geographic: Western Front
  subject:
    topic: Heiresses
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Military nursing
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Infirmières
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Héritières
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
    topic: Participation des femmes
  subject:
    topic: Soins infirmiers militaires
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
  subject:
    topic: Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
    topic: Soins médicaux
  subject:
    topic: Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
    topic: Campagnes et batailles
    geographic: Front occidental
  classification: D640.F35498 C58 2024
  classification: 940.4753092
  identifier: 9781398121317
  identifier: 1398121312
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 240813
    record change date: 20250804165024.3
    record identifier: in00005655943
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng