Episode 19: 10th June to 20th August, 1918

Nan Reay visits Blighty (England) for a very special occasion. Her spirits are lifted and she is surrounded by family and friends even managing to see a show and eat a sumptuous dinner. She is granted seven days extension and returns to Boulogne on 1 July and then on to Etaples. However she is never in one place for very long as movement orders arrive again. Nan Reay takes charge at No. 19 Casualty Clearing Station and meets some resistance.

In the summer of 1918 No. 19 Casualty Clearing Station was located at Frevent, a town situated between Arras and Abbeville.

World War 1 Timeline for 19 Episode

6 August 1918 The German army retreated at the second Battle of the Marne (July-August 1918).Allied and German casualties were heavy: French (95,000), British (13,000) and United States (12,000). It is estimated that the German Army suffered an estimated 168,000 casualties. The first Battle of the Marne from 6-12 September 1914 had been successful in pushing back the German advance on Paris. The Second Battle of the Marne, the last major German offensive on the Western Front was defeated by an Allied counter-attack, leading eventually to the Armistice. The river Marne is an eastern tributary of the Seine lying south and south-east of Paris.

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