More than 1,500 nurses served in the U.S. Navy during this period, and several hundred worked for the American Red Cross. Additionally, a handful, like Boylston, worked in American units of the ...

More than 1,500 nurses served in the U.S. Navy during this period, and several hundred worked for the American Red Cross. Additionally, a handful, like Boylston, worked in American units of the ...

A role of a nurse during The Great War was not only exhausting ... Plastic surgery was used for the first time in WW1. Having trained in France, doctor Harold Gillies pioneered the method of ...

The autograph books of a nurse who cared for soldiers during World War One have been reunited with her family 100 years after the conflict. Madeleine Louise Norman, from Jersey, was working in ...

A blue plaque has been unveiled to commemorate a nurse killed during World War One while working at a hospital in Belgium. Nellie Spindler, from Wakefield, died aged 26 in a blast three miles from ...

A nurse's lost journal has revealed unseen sketches and writing from World War One, created by soldiers ... conditions like shell shock were treated during the conflict. It was found locked ...

Thankfully, their efforts are finally being recognised which is why today’s Google Doodle has been dedicated to Edith Cavell, a nurse during World War One. Cavell, who was executed by firing ...

First hand accounts from soldiers recollected the truce which led to German and British troops playing football during the Christmas ... She said: “WW1 nurses encouraged patients to write ...