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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 ...
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.
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.
M. Rose Macaulay; Beatrice Mary MacDonald; Katherine Maud MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald (nurse) Florence MacDowell; Hester Maclean; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)
Nellie Spindler (10 August 1891 – 21 August 1917) [1] was a staff nurse who was killed during the Battle of Passchendaele.She is one of only two British female casualties of World War I buried in Belgium [a] and the only woman buried among more than 10,000 men at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
M. Rose Macaulay; Beatrice Mary MacDonald; Katherine Maud MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald (nurse) Florence MacDowell; Hester Maclean; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)
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.
Deacon was enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force as a nurse with the Australian Army Nursing Service on 29 November 1914. [4] She was among the first group of Australian nurses to leave for service on the Kyarra. [1] [2] Her first military experience was in Egypt where she remained for 12 months, serving at Mena Camp during the Gallipoli ...