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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.
M. Rose Macaulay; Beatrice Mary MacDonald; Katherine Maud MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald (nurse) Florence MacDowell; Hester Maclean; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)
Bertha Moraes Nérici (1921–2005), Brazilian nurse who served in World War II; Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985), co-leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult; Nora Neve (1873–1952), pioneer of missionary nursing in Kashmir; Mary Ann Brown Newcomb (1817–1892, American Civil War nurse following the Battle of Fort Donelson
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 "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.
Hallett, Christine E. Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War (Manchester UP, 2009) Hallett, Christine E. Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War (Oxford UP, 2014) Hawkins, Sue. Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century: The Quest for Independence (2010) Hay, Ian. One Hundred Years of Army Nursing (1953)
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.
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.