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:[https://archive.org/stream/2englishreview25londuoft#page/n13/mode/2up "At the Somme" [War Poetry<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Mary Borden-Turner published in ''The English Review'', August 1917, page 97. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Borden Mary Borden] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/backwashofwar00lamoiala ''The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse''] by Ellen N. La Motte 1916. Archive.org. The author worked in a French military field hospital, situated ten kilometres behind the lines, in Belgium. The dedication in the book indicates the hospital was run by Mary Borden-Turner, see previous entry.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027887409 ''The Cellar-house of Pervyse : a tale of uncommon things from the journals and letters of the Baroness T'Serclaes and Mairi Chisholm''] by G E Mitton 1917 Archive.org. Volunteer ambulance drivers Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm in Belgium. [https://archive.org/details/cellarhouseofpervyse_1506_librivox Audio LibriVox recording] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/elsiemairigotowa00dian ''Elsie and Mairi Go To War : two extraordinary women on the Western Front''] by Diane Atkinson 2010 Archive.org Lending Library
:Also see Fiction below, for a book where there is a representation of these two women, but not as the main character.
*[https://archive.org/details/vr76frenchmilita00reckrich ''V.R. 76 : a French Military Hospital''] by Harold James Reckitt. 1921. Archive.org. A military hospital with a non-military administration. (Fondation Johnstone-Reckitt). The author was a previous British MP, with a family history of philanthropy.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersofamer00vanviala ''War Letters of an American Woman''] by Marie Van Vorst. 1916 Archive.org. A novelist, she worked as a volunteer nurse at the American Ambulance [Hospital]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Vorst Wikipedia]
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