May Sinclair serves with the Motor Field Ambulance Corps in Belgium
Poet involved
What happened
From 25 September to 13 October 1914, May Sinclair served with the Motor Field Ambulance Corps on the Belgian front. The chronology records her personal participation in wartime ambulance service in Belgium. This was a direct experience of the war rather than merely an intellectual or political response to it.
Literary impact
Sinclair’s service on the Belgian front brought her into direct contact with the human consequences of war. The experience forms an important biographical context for the wartime observations and humanitarian concerns that appeared in her subsequent writing and journalism.
Source: Attached chronology
