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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 ...
Pages in category "World War I nurses" The following 188 pages are in this category, out of 188 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Lydia Abell;
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.
The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire. The most important periods of operation for these units were during World War I and World War II.
Hallett, Christine E. Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War (Manchester UP, 2009) Hallett, Christine E. Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War (Oxford UP, 2014) Hawkins, Sue. Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century: The Quest for Independence (2010) Hay, Ian. One Hundred Years of Army Nursing (1953)
Pages in category "Female nurses in World War I" The following 177 pages are in this category, out of 177 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
By 1917 the Canadian Army Nursing Service included 2,030 nurses, of which 1,886 were overseas, with 203 on reserve. By the end of the war, 3,141 had enlisted. [1] The First World War had Casualty Clearing Station, an advance unit, that was close to the front line. Being near the front these stations were often bombed or hit by artillery.
Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish World War I Red Cross nurse in Siberia; Mary Carson Breckinridge (1881–1965), founder of the Frontier Nursing Service; Vera Brittain (1893–1970), WWI VAD; Mary Francis Bridgeman (1813–1888), nun and Crimean War nurse; Ellen Johanne Broe (1900–1994) Danish nurse and nursing educator