A Journal of Impressions in Belgium
by May Sinclair
The Belgian Journal of Impressions is a fictional record of Sinclair's experience and one of the first female wartime diaries published in the UK. The magazine details several days spent with the corps carrying the wounded by ferry between Ghent and Ostend before the fall of Antwerp. The tone is mostly one of inadequacy and regret — Sinclair is aware of his possible and ultimately useless presence on the front lines — but it is this tension that gives the text its meaning.
