Research Catalog

Title

Fearless : Dorothie Feilding's war in Flanders, 1914-1917 / Patrick Vanleene ; translated from the Dutch by Daphne Vanleene.

Author

Vanleene, Patrick, 1952-

Publication

Gent : Academia Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Vanleene, Daphne,

Description

180 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits, maps; 21 x 23 cm

Summary

The French marine fuseliers from Brittany who fought in Nieuwpoort, Flanders, from 1915 onwards, were brisk and cheerful youngsters, sporting colorful sailors' uniforms. Their nicknames "Playboys of Brittany" and "the Ladies with the red pompoms" were quite misleading, for the marines had a reputation as cunning and fierce fighters. If these soldiers were remarkable and strikingly colorful, their ambulance driver was even more so: for Dorothie Feilding was an English lady, daughter of the Warwickshire Earl of Denbigh. A woman in the war was unheard of in those days, but she stayed in Flanders at the side of her marines until 1917, saving hundreds of lives under horrendous circumstances. Along the way Dorothie won not only their hearts, but the admiration of generals and kings as well.

Subjects

• Women in war > History
• Ambulance drivers > History
• Feilding, Dorothie, 1889-1935
• World War, 1914-1918
• Biographies

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index.

Contents

Foreword by The Council of Nieuwpoort -- Foreword by Field Marshall the Lord Guthrie -- A bird's eye view -- A one way ticket to Flanders -- The last stand -- A return ticket to Pervijze -- Providence and a dog -- Battlefield Nieuwpoort -- Killing fields -- On the road -- Queen of hearts -- Dorothie's war -- Censors, spies and journalists -- Years of sorrow -- Lest we forget -- Sources -- Index -- Acknowledgements.

ISBN

• 9789038224824
• 9038224826

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library