<<WHEN war was declared August 1st, 1914, the great upheaval sent its waves of excitement beating against every shore till it touched the whole world.
Away in the Northern-Midlands of England there is a county-hospital. Enrolled among its nurses were several who belonged to the Territorials. Scarcely had war been declared when their marching orders came. Proudly they went away, clad in military uniform, whilst those left behind envied them with an almost bitter envy.>>

A first person account,written in 1918, by a British nurse at the start of the conflict and her time in a belgian hospital.
From the WW1 Document Archive files.

http://www.gwpda.org/memoir/warnurse/wnTC.html

Joe