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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 ...
By 1916 the military hospitals at home were employing about 8,000 trained nurses with about 126,000 beds, and there were 4,000 nurses abroad with 93,000 beds. By 1918 there were about 80,000 VAD members: 12,000 nurses working in the military hospitals and 60,000 unpaid volunteers working in auxiliary hospitals of various kinds.
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;
Unlike nursing organisations, the FANY saw themselves rescuing the wounded and giving first aid, similar to a modern combat medic. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Their founder, Sergeant Major, later Captain, Edward Baker, a veteran of the Sudan Campaign and the Second Boer War , felt that a single rider could get to a wounded soldier faster than a horse-drawn ...
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.
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.
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.
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.