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 ...

Through written accounts and the many photos Rice took, the 34-minute film chronicles the Red Cross nurse's four years serving in French military hospitals during WWI. During her time in France, Rice ...

had just completed a course in nursing. She promptly enlisted and was sent to France. Many women volunteered for the war effort. Red Cross groups started up all over the county. They raised money ...

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.

WORDS OF PRAISE: Poems about the Red Cross and its nurses began appearing in the Army's 1918 weekly publication The Oteen, distributed at General Hospital No. 19. The Oteen launched on Nov. 9 ...

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 ...