Behind the Lines - A Great War Nurse and the Fight for Survival

'Behind the Lines' A documentary film by Lonely Tower Film & Media for Tudhoe & Spennymoor Local History Society.
The people of Tudhoe and Spennymoor who lived through the Great War all have individual stories to tell, their lives were both ordinary and extraordinary, tested by the global conflict that changed everything. This documentary film tells the story of Sister Kate Maxey, of RAMC medics Joseph Willis and Samuel Bott and of school teacher John Leckie. Four individuals who fought to save lives while the world around them burned.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting & informative. Excellent photography job/drawings/reenactments. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator/guest speakers were describing. Special thanks to the medical 🚑 personal. Medics/stretcher bearers risking life and limb tending to the wounded soldiers. So the over worked nurses could assist the doctors. Then continue with their thankless nursing duties. Assisting the soldiers to a full recovery. Not an occupation for the faint of hearted.

[@robertwright4603]

My grandmother, nurse Rosa Brain, was also awarded the MM for bravery in the field. I believe there were only aprox 137 of these medals given to nurses. She also went on to running her own nursing home and hardly spoke of her time during the war.

[@theonlycatlover9414]

Brilliant and amazing

[@lontower767]

Hi Hannah, thank you so much

[@theonlycatlover9414]

@@lontower767 no problem