This Intrepid Band

Dorothea Crewdson was one of more than 100,000 women who served as VADs during the Great War, but in so many ways she stands above the...

I have copies here of many accounts by members of the military nursing services who were serving in France between the outbreak of war and m...

I included a photograph with my last post of Amy Frances Turner, so I thought it would be worth writing a little about her wartime service -...

Amy Frances Turner (courtesy of Judy Burge) I feel that by the time we reach August next year I might be all centenaried-out.  Alread...

I grew up in the London suburbs, just a couple of hundred yards from a railway station. It was an odd sort of station as which ever way you ...

During the Great War many existing railway lines nationwide were taken over by the Government in an effort to make the best use of se...

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