Practice of nursing in military environments

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A case for "Blighty" : Canadian official / Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), Ltd.

My story of the war : a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion / [Mary Ashton Livermore].

Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army : founded chiefly on the experience of the late war / by Florence Nightingale ; presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.

The army looks to you to look after the army : join QARANC, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps / Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

[Fund-raising sticker for the Evening News Red Cross Fund].

Florence Nightingale, 1820-1856 : a study of her life down to the end of the Crimean war / by I.B. O'Malley.

British Red Cross Society 1914 : [nurse bending over soldier lying on the ground].

British Red Cross Society 1914 : [a man in naval uniform [?] attends a soldier lying on the ground, a horse-drawn ambulance in the background].

British Red Cross Society 1914 : [nurse with arms stretched out from her sides].

[Fund-raising sticker for the Daily Mail Red Cross Fund. Assistance].

British Red Cross Society : 1D :  [Britannia supporting a wounded soldier lying on the battlefield, a horse-drawn ambulance approaches].

Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War, 1914-1918 / Marianne Barker.

A unique nursing group : New Zealand army nurse anaesthetists of WW1.

Easing pain on the Western Front : American nurses of the Great War and the birth of modern nursing practice / Paul E. Stepansky.

A history of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps / Mary T. Sarnecky.

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Military Nursing

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Works from the collections

Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War, 1914-1918 / Marianne Barker.

A unique nursing group : New Zealand army nurse anaesthetists of WW1.

Easing pain on the Western Front : American nurses of the Great War and the birth of modern nursing practice / Paul E. Stepansky.

A history of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps / Mary T. Sarnecky.

Military Nursing

Images from the collections

Images referencing Military Nursing

Works from the collections

Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War, 1914-1918 / Marianne Barker.

A unique nursing group : New Zealand army nurse anaesthetists of WW1.

Easing pain on the Western Front : American nurses of the Great War and the birth of modern nursing practice / Paul E. Stepansky.

A history of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps / Mary T. Sarnecky.

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