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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.
Women workers in the First World War: the British experience (1981) online; Brittain, Vera. Testament of Youth (1933). Testament of youth : an autobiographical study of the years 1900–1925. London: Orion Publishing Co. 2014. ISBN 978-1780226590. Farmborough, Florence. Nurse at the Russian Front: A Diary 1914–18 First published by Constable ...
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.
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;
Most of these nurses were serving in the Australian Army Nursing Service; however, a small number were serving with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, one of a number of British Army nursing services during World War I. [2] Other Australian women made their own way to Europe and joined the British Red Cross, private hospitals ...
Lenah was one of the first twenty women to join the Navy Nurse Corps in 1908. She rose through the ranks and served as the second Superintendent of the US Navy Nurse Corps during World War I. She was one of four women to be awarded the Navy Cross, and the only one out of the four to be alive at the time of receiving the award. After her death ...
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 Red Cross Hostess and Hospital Service and Recreation Corps, [2] known as "Gray Ladies", started in 1918 at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., providing services for war patients. [3]