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A memorial with the names of the 40 Scottish nurses killed in WW1 was erected by members of the Military Nursing Service, and unveiled at the Cathedral of St Giles in Edinburgh in 1921. The memorial is a bronze tablet set in green marble. [57]
By 1916 the military hospitals at home were employing about 8,000 trained nurses with about 126,000 beds, and there were 4,000 nurses abroad with 93,000 beds. By 1918 there were about 80,000 VAD members: 12,000 nurses working in the military hospitals and 60,000 unpaid volunteers working in auxiliary hospitals of various kinds.
Edith Louisa Cavell (/ ˈ k æ v əl / KAV-əl; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse.She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium and return to active service through the spy ring known as La Dame Blanche.
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Pen and Sword, 1990) Piggott, Juliet. Famous Regiments: Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Leo Cooper Ltd, 1975) Summers, Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914 (2000) Taylor, Eric. Wartime Nurse: One Hundred Years from the Crimea to Korea 1854-1954 (2001)
During World War I, Jane stayed on the home front and organized nurses to go overseas and work with wounded soldiers. She was in charge of over 20,000 nurses, who all worked in vital roles overseas in the war. In 1918, Jane went to Europe to attend a nursing conference and to continue her work. However, she fell ill there and passed away in 1919.
Center of Military History, The Army Nurse Corps, Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army. Monahan, Evelyn and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II. New York: Knopf, 2003. Norman, Elizabeth. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the ...
Pages in category "World War I nurses" The following 190 pages are in this category, out of 190 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Lydia Abell;
Women volunteered to serve in the military in special women-only corps; by the end of the war, over 80,000 had enlisted. [26] [27] Many served as nurses in the following: The Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) The Territorial Force Nursing Service.