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Entrance to Endell Street Military Hospital, c. 1915 The concept of the Women's Hospital Corps was created and instituted in 1914. Previously met with hostility by officials, Doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson decided to bypass the British government by going directly to the French Embassy with their offer to run a military hospital in Wimereux, France.
The No. 3 New Zealand General Hospital was a World War I military hospital established in Codford, Wiltshire, England on the western rim of Salisbury Plain, taking over from a Royal Army Medical Corps hospital. [1] It stood opposite the New Zealand Command Depôt, known as Codford Camp, and was a few miles from Sling Camp. [2]
Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948 (2006) Piggott, Juliet. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Pen and Sword, 1990) Piggott, Juliet. Famous Regiments: Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Leo Cooper Ltd, 1975) Summers, Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914 (2000) Taylor, Eric.
The № 1 New Zealand General Hospital (1NZGH) was a World War I military hospital in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England. The hospital was established in June 1916, after moving from Abasseyeh in Egypt. [1] It was operated by the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps. It had been the Lady Hardinge Hospital for Wounded Indian Soldiers. [2] [3] When ...
Women volunteered to serve in the military in special women-only corps; by the end of the war, over 80,000 had enlisted. [27] [28] Many served as nurses in the following: The Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) The Territorial Force Nursing Service.
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 ...
The No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital was a World War I military hospital in Walton-on-Thames, England. The hospital opened in 1915 by requisitioning the essentially 15th century Mount Felix estate, a grand house with gardens, and closed in 1920. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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.