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Friday, 30 August 2013
Bravery - It Started with a Tweet
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I've always had quite strong views on Great War nurses being described as angels and heroines, and the assertion that they were all...
Sunday, 4 August 2013
Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
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I've just added a list of women who joined Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service between 1884 and 1928 to my website. There...
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Sunday, 28 July 2013
The 'Burnt Records'
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It's common knowledge to anyone researching family members who served in the Great War that a large percentage of service records were d...
Sunday, 21 July 2013
Snatches of Life
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Because there are so few official records of the pre-WW1 military nursing services still surviving today, piecing together the details of th...
Sunday, 7 July 2013
Edith Hope - by the purest chance ...
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While travelling back from Cornwall a couple of days ago, I just happened to stop briefly in Salisbury for lunch. Not having time to get as ...
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Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Dorothea's War
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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...
Sunday, 26 May 2013
On This Day - May 26th 1940
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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...
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