personal experiences and adventures with both armies, 1870-1871

Personal Letters of a Driver at the Front

From the preface:

These letters, according to ordinary ethics in such matters, should not, perhaps, be published. They were merely intended as tributes of friendship and remembrance. Casually written --- in pencil often --- at moments between duties, with no thought of their being destined to any further purpose than that distance and absence might count a little less through the pictures they would give of a day's work far away.

Excepting that here and there in each letter a few details quite personal have been omitted, and of course the names of places sometimes changed, they are untouched. Their author has had no chance to revise them, nor, it must be confessed, has his consent to their printing been asked.

"Based on stories told by wounded in our care and on experiences as recorded in home letters during the period from July 1915 to October 1916." Preface.

A native from Hawaii, Dr. James R. Judd and his wife Louise travelled to France in 1915 where he first served in the hospital in Neuilly before he was made chief surgeon of the Juilly Hospital from 1915 to 1917. Mrs. Judd worked at the side of her husband throughout the war.

War poems

Young Hilda at the Wars

Who are Norman and Georgie Kunkel? They corresponded for two years during WWII while Norman was an ambulance driver, married in 1946, and raised a family of four. During this time Norman completed his education at the University of Washington and taught school for 25 years.