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A small selection of photographs from the National Archives of Canada. Nurses have served with the Canadian military since Northwest Rebellion in 1885 and small contingents were sent to the South A…
The Red Cross is indexing personal that was part of the on The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). This may be WW1 Nurses.
Red Cross volunteers learned how to give first aid. In this picture, the War Office inspects volunteers doing first aid exercises in 1918. A group of volunteers attends to a casualty on a stretcher while War Office representatives look on. Find out about first aid today. Become a first aid volunteer.
How you can use free online records from The National Archives to trace the pioneering women who served as nurses in the First World War
We are quickly approaching the 1918 centennial, commemorating the end of the First World War, with ceremonies and events being planned around the world. It’s increasingly important, however, to rea…
Ginny A. Roth, will speak at 2 PM ET today, April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on “A Call to Service: Women Represented in American Red Cross Posters and Postcards During World War I…
In today’s world, nursing is a very popular field of study and a career as a nurse is becoming more and more demanding. However, it took decades for the career to actually gain some sort of credit and recognition. It wasn’t until the 19th century that nursing was truly valued, when many remarkable individuals, mostly women, took the stage to find ways to help the wounded and the sick. Below is a list of ten nurses who have truly changed the field of nursing. Many of them were able to set forth a new stone that would create a path
