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Angels and citizens : British women as military nurses, 1854-1914

In this history of British women as military nurses between 1854 and 1914 Anne Summers gives a detailed account of the origins and development of the regular Army Nursing Service and its successor, the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Print Book, English, 1988
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1988
History
xii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780710214799, 9780710213389, 0710214790, 0710213387
16278155
Before the Nightingales
The Crimean experiment
Lady into nurse: Jane Shaw Stewart and the public service, 1859-70
Uneasy truce: Her Majesty's nursing sisters, 1870-1902
Philanthropy and the battlefield, 1854-78
Comfort after comfort: nursing lobbies and the War Office, 1879-85
Heroines for the empire, 1883-1902
Disasters and reform: the Anglo-Boer war and after, 1899-1906
The birth of the VAD: nursing reserve schemes, 1906-14
Emancipation or militarisation?