Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 075   Volume 4: September 1915 (Kent) - January 1916 (Westminster Hospital)

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Lord Derby's scheme succeeding, (conscription), British Army doubled in last week.
More married men than single men enlisting. Casual canvass of one regiment
indicated they were "fed up with married life". Liked article that said
"English people being brought up to think of matrimony as a romance rather
than a partnership".

1915 December 15
On duty in King William tonight, a soldier's ward. Temporarily.


Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 075   Volume 4: September 1915 (Kent) - January 1916 (Westminster Hospital)