This website displays the remarkable diaries which Edith Elizabeth Appleton wrote while nursing in Northern France from 1914 to 1919. Click here to read them.   Update 31 January 2012: Edie's diaries are published as a book and eBook on 1st March 2012 by Simon & Schuster with the Imperial War Museum. A Nurse at the Front is edited by Ruth Cowen and has a Foreword by Michael Morpurgo. Click here for more information. < Click on the image to enlarge

Click here to write in, or view, the Visitors' Book.      Contact us via email at: ediesdiaries@gmail.com

Extracts from Edie's diaries were read on BBC Radio 4 at 3.30pm on 10, 11 and 12 November 2009.
The three broadcasts were repeated on Sundays 26 June, 3 and 10 July 2011.
Missed them?  You can still hear them; more information here.

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