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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.
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;
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.
Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century: The Quest for Independence (2010) Hay, Ian. One Hundred Years of Army Nursing (1953) McEwen, Yvonne. In the Company of Nurses: The History of the British Army Nursing Service in the Great War (2014) Noakes, Lucy. Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948 (2006) Piggott ...
Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author.She is known for her book The Backwash of War in which she chronicled her experience as a nurse in World War I in an often bitter and cynical manner.
Grace Margaret Wilson CBE, RRC (25 June 1879 – 12 January 1957) was a high-ranked nurse in the Australian Army during World War I and the first years of World War II. Wilson was born in Brisbane, and completed her initial training as a nurse in 1908.
Nursing became one of the most popular professions in military employment during these years. [5] In Asia, women's labor in the cotton and silk industries became essential for the economy. [6] Before 1914, few countries, including New Zealand, Australia, and several Scandinavian nations, had given women the right to vote (see Women's suffrage ...