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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

During WWI, Ernest Hemingway joined the Red Cross Ambulance Service where he was sent to Italy, helping to gather the dead and tend to wounded soldiers. On July 8, 1918, while volunteering to pass ...

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 ...