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Cawood volunteered as a staff nurse for the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) on 14 November 1914. Two weeks later she left Sydney on the hospital ship HMAT A.55 Kyarra as a member of the No. 2 Australian General Hospital, bound for Egypt. [1] She was promoted to nursing sister in 1915 while serving on a hospital ship and transports. [4]
Out of the over three thousand Canadian nurses who volunteered their services 53 nurses died while serving their country. [1] The military history of Canadian nurses during World War I began on August 4, 1914, when the United Kingdom entered the First World War (1914–1918) by declaring war on Germany.
The Army Nursing Service, which had been established in 1881, and which from 1889 provided Sisters for all Army hospitals with at least 100 beds, [4] had only a small number of nurses in its employ. In 1897, in an effort to have nurses available if needed for war, the service was supplemented by Princess Christian 's Army Nursing Service ...
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 ...
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.
M. Rose Macaulay; Beatrice Mary MacDonald; Katherine Maud MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald (nurse) Florence MacDowell; Hester Maclean; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)
M. Rose Macaulay; Beatrice Mary MacDonald; Katherine Maud MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald (nurse) Florence MacDowell; Hester Maclean; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)
Before World War I, Canadian Nursing Sisters participated in the South African War, Boer War, and the War of 1812. [1] Following the creation of the Canadian Army Medical Department in June 1899, the Canadian Army Nursing Service was created and four Canadian nurses were dispatched South Africa. [1]