Yet the myth of the gentle young nurse, often a voluntary and untrained VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment), in her starched and spotless white uniform, was universally admired. It echoed centuries of ...

Nurses from The San Hospital will dress up in period costume to honour those who served in WWI. “They had never seen such horror,’’ said David Cooper of North Turramurra, vice-president of Sydney ...

Nursing in World War One was exhausting, often dangerous work and the women who volunteered experienced the horror of war firsthand, some paying the ultimate price. But their story is surrounded by ...