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M. Rose Macaulay; Beatrice Mary MacDonald; Katherine Maud MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald (nurse) Florence MacDowell; Hester Maclean; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)
Cawood volunteered as a staff nurse for the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) on 14 November 1914. Two weeks later she left Sydney on the hospital ship HMAT A.55 Kyarra as a member of the No. 2 Australian General Hospital, bound for Egypt. [1] She was promoted to nursing sister in 1915 while serving on a hospital ship and transports. [4]
The Army Nursing Service, which had been established in 1881, and which from 1889 provided Sisters for all Army hospitals with at least 100 beds, [4] had only a small number of nurses in its employ. In 1897, in an effort to have nurses available if needed for war, the service was supplemented by Princess Christian 's Army Nursing Service ...
Mary Anne Pocock, ARRC (20 July 1863 – 16 July 1946), commonly known as Bessie Pocock, was an Australian nursing sister and army matron who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. She was awarded the Associate Royal Red Cross and thrice Mentioned in Despatches for her wartime service.
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 ...
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.
Bluebirds (Australian nurses) Mary Borden; Darinka Mirković Borović; Natalija Neti Munk; Maria Bertilla Boscardin; Lucy M. Boston; Tatiana Botkina; Josephine Beatrice Bowman; Elsa Brändström; Mary Carson Breckinridge; Annie Brewer; Evelyn Brooke; Marion Brown (nurse) Elaine Bellew-Bryan, Baroness Bellew; Augusta Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness ...
Rachael Pratt, MM (18 July 1874 – 23 March 1954), sometimes spelt Rachel Pratt, was an Australian army nurse.She served with the Australian Army Nursing Service during the First World War and was one of only seven Australian nurses awarded the Military Medal.