History of War

TIMELINE OF... BRITISH ARMY NURSING

Source:   British nurses tend wounded and sick soldiers amid the difficult conditions at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during the Crimean War  

1854

CRISIS IN CRIMEA

Florence Nightingale trains and leads 38 nurses to tend British sick and wounded during the Crimean War, the first mission of its kind outside the British Isles.

Members of the Royal Air Force Nursing Service after receiving the Royal

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