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 ...

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 ...

Nurses did not have great expectations ... 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War. Her fate was widely used for anti-German propaganda.

They then hear about Edith Cavell who was a British nurse based in Belgium during the First World War, and Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, the first black nurse to work at a modern hospital in the UK.

This is Part 2 of a three-part column series about World War I nurse Gena Jonette (click here to read Part 1 of the series). She served as a volunteer in the Army Nurse Corps ...