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The Cross Red Nurse is a one-reel 1918 silent comedy film directed by and starring Marie Dressler. [1]Made during the First World War the title clearly alludes to a Red Cross Nurse and is often erroneously labelled as "The Red Cross Nurse". [2]
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. [1]
Emma Maria Pearson (1828–1893), the daughter of Captain Charles Pearson, RN, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, was a writer and one of the first British women to serve as a nurse for the Red Cross. Both the French and Germans awarded medals to her for running ambulances (as field hospitals were then called) during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
In the 1940s during World War II, the Red Cross enrolled 7.5 million volunteers along with 39,000 paid staff [81] and more than 104,000 nurses [82] for military service, prepared 27 million packages for prisoners of war, shipped more than 300,000 tons of supplies, and collected 13.3 million pints of blood plasma for the armed forces. [83]
"The Rose of No Man's Land" (or in French "La rose sous les boulets") is a song written as a tribute to the Red Cross nurses at the front lines of the First World War. Music publisher Leo Feist published a version in 1918 as "La rose sous les boulets", with French lyrics by Louis Delamarre (in a "patriotic" format – four pages at 7 by 10 ...
Leaving Florida, Jane Delano then spent three years nursing typhoid patients at a copper mine in Bisbee, Arizona until accepting an appointment as the Superintendent of Nurses at University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chief Executives of the American Red Cross Department of Nursing (1918). Delano is in the center.
2. 1967 G.I. Nurse Action Figure. The Truffle Pig Merch / ebay ... The game featured two colorful robots — Red Rocker and Blue Bomber — controlled by players who used levers to punch and try ...
Clara Noyes (1869–1946), enrolled 20,000 Red Cross nurses for World War I service, founded the first school for midwives in the U.S. Peggy Nuttall (1917–2008), editor and director of Nursing Times UK; Mary Adelaide Nutting (1858–1948), Canadian nurse, educator, and pioneer in the field of hospital care