This Intrepid Band

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...

     A year ago this month The National Archives put online the entire WO399 series of service records of women who served with Queen Alexa...

Before I had an interest in military nurses, I researched some local war memorials in considerable depth. During the course of that work I l...

I've just finished transcribing the nurses' silver war badge roll, which gives details of awards to women who were unable to continu...