With the B.E.F. in France by Mary Booth first edition 1916

BOOTH, Mary. With the B.E.F. in France. London: The Salvation Army, 1916.
 
First edition. 8vo, pp. xi, 120, with 3 pp. advertisements. Frontispiece portrait of Adjutant Booth and 6 photographic pages. Original printed grey wrappers with black border and vignette, priced sixpence on upper wrapper. Light rubbing to extremities, a few small marks to wrappers, very good.
 
An account of Salvation Army women serving on the Western Front during the First World War, written by Adjutant Mary Booth while attached to the British Expeditionary Force. Booth records her work with frontline hospitals, casualty clearing stations and the burial grounds behind the lines, offering an immediate record of women’s humanitarian labour during the Somme period. Her narrative includes accounts of tending wounded soldiers, delivering letters home, accompanying the dying, and laying wreaths on behalf of families in Britain; the accompanying photographs underscore the emotional and physical demands placed on these volunteers.
 
The book was part of the Salvation Army’s wartime campaign to publicise and fund female service units. Booth herself became one of the organisation’s prominent wartime representatives, and her memoir is one of the earliest extended first-hand accounts by a woman serving with the B.E.F.