This Intrepid Band

While it's well known that soldiers in France and Flanders received a Christmas gift in 1914, it was something also extended to nurses o...

While one or two high-profile nurse casualties of the Great War are well documented, others who died or suffered injuries are rarely, if eve...

Despite the mass of books written in recent years about the service of men during the Great War, the contribution of women has never p...

RECONSTRUCTING FACES   The Art and Wartime Surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe and Mowlem Murray C. Meikle Otago University Pres...

In view of my previous post about 'The Daughters of Mars,' I thought I'd add an item here about one of the many Sick Sisters...

  I've always had quite strong views on Great War nurses being described as angels and heroines, and the assertion that they were all...

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...