Over 22,000 professionally-trained female nurses were recruited by the American Red Cross to serve in the U.S. Army between 1917 and 1919 — and over 10,000 of these served near the Western Front.

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 ...

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She said: ‘My mother never showed me this album, though she gave me several rolled bead necklaces and explained how they were made by the soldiers and often given to the nurses. ‘I found the ...