1. At the outbreak of war nursing wasn't considered a 'proper' profession ... escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War. Her fate was widely used for anti-German propaganda.

With only one eye, MacDonald remained on duty in ... and Navy to posthumously commission his mother and the other World War I U.S. nurses. This act, Davis believes, would be a fitting way to ...

A shortage of trained medical staff during World War One gave opportunities for women ... safety pins and a pencil! VAD nurses often washed and cleaned as well as nursing their patients.