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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 ...
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;
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.
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.
Margaretta Styles (1930-2005), American advocate for standardization of nursing credentials, University of California, San Francisco Nursing School dean, past president of the American Nurses Association and International Council of Nurses. Sarah Swift (1954-1937) Matron in Chief British Red Cross Society in WW1 and co-founder Royal College of ...
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.
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.
Pages in category "Female nurses in World War I" The following 180 pages are in this category, out of 180 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.