Boylston’s vivid account of her World War I nursing experience, published in 1927, depicts her work with the first Harvard Unit, a U.S. medical team that treated more casualties than any other ...

As the U.S. war machine churned to life during World War II, the need for manpower began to push the limits of the ...

MORE than two dozen Bathurst women left their families and life as they knew it behind to provide extraordinary care to ...

In WWI the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in France estimated it would need 40,000 nurses; it would get less than half.

Nurses did not have great expectations ... Plastic surgery was used for the first time in WW1. Having trained in France, doctor Harold Gillies pioneered the method of skin transplantation on ...

WATCH: Andrew Fletcher talks about his new book, Bathurst's Nurses of the Great War 1914-1919, launched in February 2025.

Ms Thomson worked as a nurse at the Merryflats War Hospital in ... loss of sight or hearing and extreme fatigue. ‘Other WW1 mementos include necklaces made for Jean by injured soldiers from ...