Military Nursing

 

Scarlet Finders Webpage

This website offers information about nurses who served during the First World War:

http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/index.html

 

This Intrepid Band Blog

Blog providing information about women who served as British Military Nurses:

http://greatwarnurses.blogspot.com/

 

No Tasks Too Great: VADs in the Great War

A talk on nurses who served during WW1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4fJY73Q_Uw

 

Service scrapbooks: Nursing, Storytelling and the First World War

Online exhibition exploring the experiences of 10 nurses who served in military hospitals as recorded in their scrapbooks:

https://www.rcn.org.uk/servicescrapbooks

 

Photographs of military nurses in uniform:

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/x4y5y9sv/images?id=emnyqbwh

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/uzpvq6vq/items

 

 

Military Hospitals

 

Bangour Village Hospital

 

Bangour Village Hospital was a psychiatric hospital which was taken over by the War Office in 1915 and again in 1939. LHSA holds photographs of soldiers and staff, including nurses, from the First World War:

https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/search?search=SUBMIT&q=Bangour+Village+Hospital&dateRangeStart=&dateRangeEnd=&sort=work_source_page_no%2Cwork_display_date&QuickSearchA=QuickSearchA

 

2nd Scottish General Hospital, Craigleith

 

Images

Craighleith Poorhouse was requisitioned by the War Office during both the First and Second World Wars and we have images of military patients and the hospital from the First World War available here:

https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/all/who/2nd%2BScottish%2BGeneral%2BHospital%252C%2BCraigleith?sort=work_source_page_no%2Cwork_display_date

 

Ethel Miller’s scrapbook

Ethel Miller was trained as a nurse at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh between 1911 and 1916. She was a member of the Territorial Force Nursing Service and worked at the 2nd Scottish General Hospital in Craigleith during the First World War. This scrapbook includes sketches and autographs:

https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/search?search=SUBMIT&q=2nd+general+hospital&dateRangeStart=&dateRangeEnd=&sort=work_source_page_no,work_display_date&QuickSearchA=QuickSearchA