This Intrepid Band

I've written twice in the past about identifying nurses who were named in the wartime diaries of Edith Appleton, here: Edith Appleton...

During the middle of 1915, as more and more hospitals were needed to cope with an increasing number of casualties, VADs first started worki...

I've just added an account to my website of the British Red Cross Central Work Rooms, Work Parties and War Hospital Supply Depots. Thes...

This new book by Mary Ingham is due to be published on April 19th, and I've put a review on my website here: Tracing Your Service Women ...

Although members of Voluntary Aid Detachments left behind many personal reminiscences and accounts of their time working in hospitals during...

Yesterday saw the publication of 'A Nurse at the Front, the First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton.' Edited by Ruth Cowen...

A couple of years ago I wrote several posts about No.13 Stationary Hospital in Boulogne, which spent its first few months in the Sugar Sheds...