Vera Brittain wanted to honour those lost in WW1 ... Cross uniforms were romantic but the work itself exhausting, unending and sometimes disgusting. Relations between professional nurses and ...

and a number of faded photographs of her and her fellow nurses dressed in their pristine white uniforms. "When she graduated as a nurse at the age of 30 in 1917, after three years of training in ...

The photos show a vanished world where nurses’ uniforms were ankle-length, flowers were commonplace on wards – and, of course, matron was queen. Lily’s great-niece Gaye Marsh, of Alicia ...

A relative of Edith Cavell - the British WW1 nurse shot by the Germans for assisting the enemy - says a Cabbage Patch doll, a lost postcard, and her ancestor's extraordinary tale all helped ...

The solemn visit to the home of the Number 3 Australian General Hospital was part of a seven-day voyage of commemoration for the nurses, aged from 18 to 80, who also visited Athens, Skiathos ...

Vera Brittain wanted to honour those lost in WW1 ... Cross uniforms were romantic but the work itself exhausting, unending and sometimes disgusting. Relations between professional nurses and ...