This Intrepid Band

Following the events of the Boer War where hundreds of wealthy female 'camp followers' invaded British hospitals in attempt to claim...

Several years ago now I transcribed the official war diary of Maud McCarthy, Matron-in-Chief with the British Expeditionary Force in France ...

At present I'm going through nurses' service files and am finding all sorts of interesting items which escaped the violence of the ...

I'm a great reader of crime fiction, often to the exclusion of doing other, more important things.  On the whole I stick to British...

... Just spare a thought for nurses in France during the winter of 1915.  Olive Dent worked as a VAD at No.9 General Hospital, on the race-c...

I've been asked several times if I have any details regarding Canadian VADs, as information seems to be hard to come by, and while brows...

The British Journal of Nursing was a weekly paper for the professional nurse, giving all types of information and clinical advice and provid...