History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~Winston Churchill

27 January, 2012

Nurses of World War One

Some of the very brave nurses at the front in the First World War. 



Nursing staff on their ward at a front-line hospital. Source



Two American nurses at the front. Source



Nurse with a patient. Source



Two British nurses in a motorbike and side-car, within 500 m of the Western Front. Source



Nurses playing cards with soldiers on a Greek island. Source



|Nurses survey air raid damage to a Canadian hospital in France. Source



An Australian nurse in England with the hospital's kangaroo mascot. Source



A nurse with patient and visitor. Source



Mairi Chisholm and Baroness de T'Sclears, two women who ran a series of first aid posts on the Western Front, tend to a patient. Source



Portrait of an Australian nurse. Source



American nurses in France. Source



Nurses posing with the hospital mascot, Billy. Source

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