Shipboard Nurses in the First World War
WWI: Navy Nurses - Naval History and Heritage Command
The US Navy had 160 nurses on active duty. They were established in 1908. By mid-1917, this number almost doubled, with 155 members of the US Naval Reserve ...
Shipboard Nurses in the First World War | Historic England
Many women did serve at sea during the First World War as nurses aboard British hospital ships, braving both the natural hazards of the sea and the new ...
Contributions of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in WWI
American nurses also sailed to France with the American Red Cross “Mercy Ship” expedition in 1915. Some of these nurses returned to France again with the Red ...
Nurses On Ships - The Shipwreck Centre & Maritime Museum
During the First World War, the need for hospital ships increased greatly to deal with large numbers of casualties.
Remembering a First World War Nurse | Imperial War Museums
Most of the bodies of the casualties were never recovered, including that of Caroline Maud Edwards. Two other nurses from Drina also died: Eliza ...
Over the next year and a half, this number would increase more than eight-fold as the Nurse Corps expanded to meet "Great War's" demands. Growth was gradual, ...
The History of the Navy Nurse Corps
In March 1945, the first Black nurse, Phyllis Mae Daley, received a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Daley was a graduate of Lincoln School ...
Nursing | World War 1 volunteers | British Red Cross
The first matron kept a record of the nurses sent out, the hospitals to which they were sent and whether the Joint War Committee or the hospital authorities ...
The Nurses of World War I - Online Exhibitions
From 1917 to 1918, the Army Nurse Corps sent 5,350 American nurses overseas to serve in France as part of the American Expeditionary Force. All of them were ...
United States Navy Nurse Corps - Wikipedia
The United States Navy Nurse Corps was officially established by Congress in 1908; however, unofficially, women had been working as nurses aboard Navy ships ...
Nursing and Medicine During World War I | CEUfast.com Blog
The nurses of WWI provided care beyond their original call of duty. Their contribution to the front lines, and at home, helped shape the unity ...
Hazards of Nursing During the First World War, 1914-1918
Naval attacks were sometimes indiscriminate and, in some cases, illegal such as the intentional torpedoing of hospital ships. Nurses on board those ships had to ...
New Zealand Army Nursing Service in the First World War
The 550 or so New Zealand nurses who served overseas during the First World War enlisted for the same reasons as the soldiers – duty, patriotism and adventure.
Military Nurse in Egypt - Away from the Western Front
Her first posting was to the hospital ship HMHS Letitia, on which she ... War and Victory Medals for her service during the First World War. After ...
British Military Nurses and the Great War: a Guide to the Services
Despite a reluctance in some quarters to welcome female nurses into military hospitals, they proved themselves an asset, both for their nursing expertise, and ...
Charlotte Le Gallais ('Lottie') was one of 10 nurses who served on the first voyage of the New Zealand Hospital Ship Maheno, which went to the aid of the Anzac ...
Shirley talks about her research on the significant role played by nurses on Hospital Ships during the First World War.
War, Evacuation and Pandemic: Sister Kathleen Mann - SPINK Insider
She then transferred to nurse on two Australian troop ships, Ulysses, and Marathon. After home leave, Sister Mann was appointed Matron of the ...
Navy Nurse Corps - Chicago - Pritzker Military Museum & Library
The corps gradually expanded to 160 prior to World War I and their first shipboard service was seen in 1913 aboard the Mayflower and Dolphin.
Military Nurses on Hospital and Transport Ships, 1914–18
Fully-trained professional nurses worked on hospital ships during the First World War, caring for the wounded during their transfer from the ...