Nursing was harrowing, often dangerous work in WW1 but the full contribution of the women often goes unrecognised, writes Shirley Williams. Let us know you agree to data collection on AMP.

Born in Barnett, Georgia, Camille O’Brien was a member of the Emory WWI nursing unit and was the only Red Cross nurse from Atlanta to die in France during the war effort. 54 ° Local News ...

The experience of nursing in wartime from a century ago will be brought into the digital age, as personal stories of a group of World War One nurses are uncovered for the first time. With the help of ...

Key quote: "It is interesting to note that this cross is to be conferred upon a woman and a nurse," said War Secretary Newton Baker, during the presentation of MacDonald's award in 1919. "This war ...

Sara Sand in her WWI nursing uniform. Sand served as a nurse in France from 1918-19. She was born in Grand Forks and later lived in Fessenden.

During World War One, two British nurses set up a first aid station just a few hundred metres behind the trenches of the Western Front. Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker became known as 'the ...

Wrest Park WW1 photos colourised to trace nurses. Published. 6 September 2018. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. About sharing. Image source, London Metropolitan Archives/Royal Sun Alliance.

The army had a strict quota for black nurses, and only 300 of them served in the entire Army Nurse Corps, which had 40,000 white nurses. It was evident the military didn’t really want black ...

This is the little-known story of the 2,139 Australian nurses who travelled abroad to serve in army hospitals and clearing stations, just back from the front line, during World War One.

Nursing in World War One was exhausting, often dangerous work and the women who volunteered experienced the horror of war firsthand, some paying the ultimate price. But their story is surrounded ...