
Agnes
Jean Hammond
From a remote Scottish sheep farm to the battlefields of France.
At just twenty-one, Agnes Nicholson traded the quiet hills of Galloway for the chaos of the First World War. As a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Somme, she carried the wounded and...
Location:
United States
Description:
From a remote Scottish sheep farm to the battlefields of France. At just twenty-one, Agnes Nicholson traded the quiet hills of Galloway for the chaos of the First World War. As a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Somme, she carried the wounded and dying from the front lines, serving with courage and resolve far from home. Her story might have been lost. After the war she married, but, having survived the war and the Spanish Flu she died tragically aged just twenty-six, nine days after the birth of her second son, from puerperal fever. For decades, silence cloaked her memory. All that remained was a tiny gravestone marked with one word: Agnes. This book uncovers her life — a tale of grit, sacrifice, and love in a world transformed by war. Agnes: A Life is both a granddaughter’s search for truth and a tribute to one of the countless women whose stories have too often been forgotten. Duration - 10h 6m. Author - Jean Hammond. Narrator - Penny Cobham. Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025. Copyright - © 2025 Jean C Hammond ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:17
Prelude
Duration:00:02:29
Chapter 1: A Galloway Hill Farm, 1901
Duration:00:12:11
Chapter 2: The Mart, 1902
Duration:00:12:10
Chapter 3: Lambing
Duration:00:08:37
Chapter 4: Bombie
Duration:00:20:56
Chapter 5: A Solway Summer
Duration:00:13:30
Chapter 6: The Fountain Pen
Duration:00:15:57
Chapter 7: A Winter Move
Duration:00:21:55
Chapter 8: Little Sypland
Duration:00:23:22
Chapter 9: Golden Wedding at Bombie, 1907
Duration:00:15:11
Chapter 10: The Pulsator, 1907
Duration:00:17:50
Chapter 11: Knollvalley Primavera
Duration:00:22:20
Chapter 12: Driving Lessons
Duration:00:29:44
Chapter 13: The Milking Machine
Duration:00:15:12
Chapter 14: Emergency
Duration:00:47:46
Chapter 15: Tea at the Big House
Duration:00:47:46
Chapter 16: Correspondence
Duration:00:13:29
Chapter 17: May’s Man
Duration:00:18:12
Chapter 18: War
Duration:00:26:05
Chapter 19: Two worlds
Duration:00:31:05
Chapter 20: The First Year
Duration:00:34:04
Chapter 21: Le Tréport, France
Duration:00:29:11
Chapter 22: Le Tréport Convoy, 26/2/1917 – 30/7/1918
Duration:00:46:09
Chapter 23: 1918
Duration:00:30:35
Chapter 24: Abbeville Convoy, 3/8/1918 – 7/2/1919
Duration:00:38:28
Chapter 25: Home
Duration:00:09:43
Epilogue
Duration:00:01:25
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:24