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

Geoffrey Moulson, who appears in the previous post, served for nearly forty years as a medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Duri...

The recent release of the film ‘ Testament of Youth ’ has provided an opportunity to view yet another portrayal of nursing during the Great...

... I've discovered that there are always going to be some things that I find so interesting they will draw me back ...

To everyone who has contacted me about the closure of the blog, thank you, but ...  it's not going to be deleted, just put into hibernat...

After seven and a half years and two hundred and forty-four posts, this is the last. Ten years ago I decided to try and seek out accurate...

Mary Watson was a trained nurse and member of the Territorial Force Nursing Service and was mobilised on the 13th August 1914 with her unit...