This Intrepid Band

Looking at a list of requirements for VADs to take with them when proceeding on active service in 1916, I noticed an entry which said 'E...

Anne Summers' book 'Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914' has become my bible of army nursing prior t...

The two previous entries mention a lot about No.13 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, and how it was opened in the autumn of 1914 in some very u...

Part Two On November 11, 1914, Lord Roberts paid the hospital a visit: he spoke to every stretcher case in hospital. The beds were very low...

This extract is another from 'Reminiscent Sketches' (John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1922), and is an account of a British military ...

Some time ago now I wrote about a visit I made to Camiers, south of Boulogne, to the site of some Great War Hospitals, now long gone. I add...

I'm not sure what people imagine a 'military nurse' was like. At present I'm starting a database of nurses, and trying to f...