Marie Allitt

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Marie Allitt is an Associate Lecturer at the University of York, UK, in the Department for English and Related Literature. She has recently completed her PhD on “Somatic, Sensuous, and Spatial Geographies in First World War Medical Caregiving Narratives,” which engages specifically with medical humanities, life-writing, and First World War medicine.

WWI Centennial

“A Male Department of Warfare:” Female Ambulance Drivers in the First World War

By Marie Allitt • November 20, 2018

While serving as an ambulance driver during the First World War, Pat Beauchamp witnessed the harrowing sight of four soldiers “blown to pieces.”1 It was an experience that, she wrote: By chance, shortly before the explosion, Beauchamp and her fellow drivers had stopped further up the road for lunch. Part of the shock and fear… Read more →