As one of many Montana women who answered the military’s call for service during World War I as a trained nurse with the Red ...

“It is all very wonderful to me that I should be a part of such a tremendous movement,” Canadian nurse Sophie Hoerner wrote her friend following her arrival in France in 1915. The “thrills and bubbles ...

Sarah Sand of Grand Forks was one of nearly 300 nurses from North Dakota who volunteered for Army service during World War I. She had been recruited by the North Dakota Red Cross at the Bismarck ...

A new memorial to Edith Cavell was unveiled in Brussels A contemporary sculpture of nurse Edith Cavell, shot by German troops 100 years ago, has been unveiled in Brussels by Princess Astrid of Belgium ...

When Army nurse Mildred Bianchi landed on the tiny island of Pantelleria in June 1943, conditions in its tent hospital were primitive at best. There was no running water or electricity in the hospital ...

Seen from above, it was a striking vision: Perfectly squared-off columns of 400 uniformed student nurses marching through downtown Rochester. The cadet nurses, all students at the St. Marys and Kahler ...

New book on N.S. sailors and nurses in WW1 Ken Hynes talks about his new book “Service and Sacrifice,” which looks at Nova Scotian sailors and nurses in the First World War.

Editor's note: This essay is excerpted from the book "Black Women in WWII: Greatness Under Fire." Segregation, which was the prevailing policy of the military and much of America in 1941, ...

QUINCY – Shirley Caswell Harrow, a nurse who, in her 70s, started a campaign to honor the nation's cadet nurses from World War II, died peacefully at her home at age 91 on Feb. 4. “The cadet nurses ...