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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.
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.
Catherine Black (nurse) 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
At the start of the war there were fewer than 300 nurses; four years later when the war ended it had over 10,000 nurses in its ranks. [48] According to the British Red Cross, "128 nursing members, 11 general service members and six Joint War Committee hospital members were killed." [49]
Nurse had a sister Frances Louisa Nurse (born 1876) who also served as a nurse in World War I. [8] She also had a brother, Charles Edward Nurse (9 July 1869 – 10 June 1945), who served in the South African War, World War I and as a home guard during World War II. [9] Nurse died at the Nurse Maude Convalescent Home in Christchurch, 20 December ...
Helen Fairchild (November 21, 1885 – January 18, 1918) was an American nurse who served as part of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, and who became known for her wartime letters to her family in the U.S., which vividly depicted the realities of combat nursing during World War I.
First World War recruitment poster for Voluntary Aid Detachments VAD nurse Olive Middleton, back row far right, in 1915 at Gledhow Hall, the estate of her cousin Baroness Airedale. The VAD system was founded in 1909 with the help of the British Red Cross and Order of St John. By the summer of 1914 there were over 2,500 Voluntary Aid Detachments ...
Mairi Lambert Gooden Chisholm, of Chisholm, MM, OStJ (26 February 1896 – 22 August 1981) was a Scottish nurse and ambulance driver in the First World War.She, together with her friend Elsie Knocker, won numerous medals for bravery and for saving the lives of thousands of soldiers on the Western Front in Belgium.