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More than 1,476 U.S. Navy nurses (American military nurses were all women then) served in military hospitals stateside and overseas. Over 400 U.S. military nurses died in service, almost all from the Spanish flu epidemic which swept through crowded military camps, hospitals, and ports of embarkation. [3] [4]
Women volunteered to serve in the military in special women-only corps; by the end of the war, over 80,000 had enlisted. [27] [28] 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.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:World War I nurses. It includes World War I nurses that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
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.
In World War I (American participation from 1917–18), the military recruited 20,000 registered nurses (all women) for military and navy duty in 58 military hospitals. They helped staff 47 ambulance companies that operated on the Western Front.
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]
Women who served during WWI were demobilized when hostilities ceased, and aside from the Nurse Corps the uniformed military became once again exclusively male. In 1942, women were brought into the military again, largely following the British model. [13] [14] The Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps was established in the United States in 1942. However ...
The First World War marked a big change in MacDonald's military career. She had moved to Britain to develop leadership skills from their military nursing program. She wanted to make a change for the women and challenge the gender roles of the time. In 1914, she was named matron in chief of a group of military nurses that, during the war, would ...