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Three Scottish nurses drowned while serving on hospital ships during WW1. A further 33 Scottish nurses died from diseases acquired while on military service. [ 56 ] Two nurses were members of the regular Military Nursing Service and the others were members of the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve and the Territorial ...
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.
M. Rose Macaulay; Beatrice Mary MacDonald; Katherine Maud MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald (nurse) Florence MacDowell; Hester Maclean; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)
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.
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.
Out of the over three thousand Canadian nurses who volunteered their services 53 nurses died while serving their country. [1] The military history of Canadian nurses during World War I began on August 4, 1914, when the United Kingdom entered the First World War (1914–1918) by declaring war on Germany.
The Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS) was established by Richard Haldane (Secretary of State for War) as part of the Army Medical Service of the newly established Territorial Force, created by his reform of auxiliary forces in the United Kingdom (UK) [1] The service was inaugurated in July 1908, and its first Matron-in-Chief was Sidney Browne, who had previously held this position in ...
Nurses of any nation killed by military action during the First World War. Pages in category "Nurses killed in World War I" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.