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BRITISH MILITARY NURSES - Details of the various military nursing services
‘A Guide to the Services’ and ‘A Suitable Woman for the Job’ – links to two articles on the Western Front Association website
The Royal Red Cross – Some facts and figures about the award during the Great War

TERRITORIAL FORCE NURSING SERVICE
An outline of the service 1908-1921
Post-war summary of wartime service

CIVILIAN NURSES – Some basic sources for tracing civil nurses and midwives

MILITARY NURSES AND HOSPITALS BEFORE THE GREAT WAR
History of the Army Nursing Service (1902)
A Snapshot of the Army Nursing Service (1893 and 1901)
British Military Hospitals worldwide (1899)
UK Military Hospital Reports (1903)
Reports for some larger UK Military Hospitals - Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; Chatham; Herbert Hospital, Woolwich; Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot; Woolwich, and The Citadel Hospital, Cairo.

OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF THE GREAT WAR
Transcriptions of summing-up accounts of many different services:
Ambulance Trains
Australian Nurses
Australian Casualty Clearing Stations
Canadian Nurses
Casualty Clearing Stations
Nurses’ Convalescent Homes
Decorations and Honours to Nurses
Embarkation
New Zealand Nurses
Nurses’ Rest Clubs
Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service, India
Promotions
South African Nurses
USA Nurses

NURSES’ TALES – Some personal nursing reminiscences
A Territorial Force Nursing Service Sister; No.3 Casualty Clearing Station; A Base Hospital in France; A VAD at the Base; A Nurse’s Life in Italy; An Officers’ Hospital; North Russia 1918-19; No.27 Ambulance Train; French Flag Nursing Corps; Daisy Dobbs

MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS – Not nursing, but all related in some way to caring for soldiers of the Great War
Women Doctors in Antwerp
Prisoners of War at Grey Hut, Chateaux D’Oex, Switzerland
Relatives’ Hostel, Le Touquet
Visitor’s Hostel, Le Havre
Rouen Station Coffee Shop
Article on Women Workers from ‘Land and Water Extra’
British Red Cross Hospital, Netley
Henley-in-Arden Open-air Hospital
Ontario Military Hospital, Orpington
Women Workers at St. Dunstan’s Hostel for blind servicemen
The Almeric Paget Military Massage Corps

MILITARY MEDAL AWARDS TO MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY NURSING SERVICES

OFFICIAL WAR DIARY OF THE MATRON-IN-CHIEF WITH THE B.E.F IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS
A transcription of the very extensive official war diary of the Matron-in-Chief with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders during the Great War. The original document runs to more than 4,000 pages and one million words. This link will give a full index to all the pages

UK HOME HOSPITALS 1917
Compiled from a War Office document dated October 1917 and naming more than 2,500 establishments caring for sick and wounded soldiers of the Great War

MEDICAL RECORDS – A brief guide to the medical records of soldiers who served during the Great War

SCOTTISH WOMEN’S HOSPITAL -An index of those women who served with the SWH during the Great War, with their locations and dates of service

WORLD WAR TWO
A series of personal accounts from nursing sisters who served during the Second World War
Peacetime, 1938
Evacuation from France, 1940
Ambulance Trains, 1940
Malta, 1941
India, Iraq and Persia, 1939-42
Last days in Malaya before the fall of Singapore, 1942
Evacuation of Polish Prisoners from Russia to Persia, Spring 1942
Egypt and Benghazi, 1943
A Typhus Hospital in Teheran, 1943
Sicily, 1943
Italy, 1943-44

LOCATION OF BRITISH MILITARY HOSPITALS DURING WW2


NOMINAL ROLLS OF MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY NURSING SERVICES – A selection of nominal rolls taken at different times between September 1939 and February 1940. They include the names of all women who served in France between the outbreak of war and the evacuation from Dunkirk in May/June 1940

ABBREVIATIONS – Some help with abbreviations appearing in transcriptions of original documents on the site

RESEARCHING A NURSE – A guide to sources for those trying to trace a military nurse who served during the Great War

READ ALL ABOUT IT – Books of interest about nurses and nursing from the nineteenth century to the Second World War

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