When war broke out Vera abandoned her studies at Oxford to become a nurse out of a strong sense of duty. With brother, Edward, fiancé Roland and two close friends Geoffrey and Victor fighting, the all ...

Patients and nurses at Gloucester Royal Infirmary. Red Cross nurse Doris Burton far right hand side. Nurse Betty front left. Doris enrolled as a Red Cross Nurse at the beginning of the war.

The moving diaries, complete with touching letters written by soldiers she treated in the trenches, will go on sale along with her pristine Red Cross uniform. Lucy Kate 'Kitty' Card was a nurse ...

Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum ... gas masks. Nurses in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in 1920. Victor Bulla/Sputnik After the 1917 Revolution, the Society acted as the Soviet Red Cross.

Northern Ireland-born Margaret Mayne worked as a nurse at the North Staffordshire Infirmary from 1907 until the outbreak of the war in 1914. For her work in WW1, she was awarded the Associate Royal ...

As early as 1914, the American Red Cross sent a mercy ship to the European theater, stocked with medical supplies and staffed with nurses and doctors. I’d always wondered whether “rolling ...