This Intrepid Band

*****      From its earliest days Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service was determined to be an elite organisa...

Two years ago I wrote about nurses being regarded as 'brave' for their work during wartime and suggested that they were many o...

Imperial War Museum: Army/Training 25/10      As part of a transcription of the General Nursing Council Register (England and Wales)...

     A new edition of Stella Bingham's 1979 book 'Ministering Angels' has just been released by Dean Street Press in e-boo...

I've just been checking down the list of posts I've made since the blog started more than eight years ago to see what was popular a...

         At the time of the Great War there was still no national registration of nurses in the United Kingdom nor any official registers o...

Royal Naval Hospital, Granton [IWM Q18930]      With an increasing number of records being made available online, it's now pos...