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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; Augusta Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness ...
Inspired by her work, she published her first book, The Tuberculosis Nurse in 1914. [ 3 ] In 1915, she volunteered as one of the first American war nurses to go to Europe and treat soldiers in World War I. [ 4 ] She was encouraged to do so by her friend, the American author Gertrude Stein , who at the time lived in Paris . [ 3 ]
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.
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 ...
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.
In 1911 Hester Maclean had been given the title of 'matron-in-chief' of a proposed military nursing reserve, but despite her efforts (and those of Janet Gillies before her) no service existed by the time New Zealand entered the First World War. [1] New Zealand nurses were motivated by the same sense of duty and patriotism as men who volunteered ...
The Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS) was established by Richard Haldane (Secretary of State for War) as part of the Army Medical Service of the newly established Territorial Force, created by his reform of auxiliary forces in the United Kingdom (UK) [1] The service was inaugurated in July 1908, and its first Matron-in-Chief was Sidney Browne, who had previously held this position in ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:World War I nurses. It includes World War I nurses that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents