Katharine Asquith’s Nursing Diary

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‘In April 1918, Katharine Asquith, née Horner, was aged 33, married since 1907 to Raymond, the eldest son of the Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith, and mother of three children then aged nine, seven and two. Raymond had been killed in 1916 on the Somme and her only surviving brother, Edward Horner, in 1917. Her life had been shattered and she has been described as one of the most tragic of all the war widows.’

So John Jolliffe writes in his Introduction to this fascinating Diary, and account of Katharine Asquith’s work as a Nurse in northern France in the last months of the First World War.