But on its approach, the hospital ship struck a German U-boat mine. HMHS Anglia would never reach its destination, and its ...

1. At the outbreak of war nursing wasn't considered a 'proper' profession ... escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War. Her fate was widely used for anti-German propaganda.

Pvt. Walter Joseph Keefe, an Army infantryman serving overseas in World War I, was only cleared to serve after the teenager's ...

A soldier who was officially the only British woman to fight on the front line during World War One has been hailed as a ...

About 7,000 U.S. women served overseas as nurses during the Vietnam War. These veterans are working to ensure their ...

During the Second World War, thousands of nurses enlisted and were deployed overseas, where they worked to provide compassion ...

ELLISVILLE, Mo. — This is an unsung story about a group of World War II nurses. Terry Jacoby, a 100-year-old retired nurse, ...

Women were not allowed to fight as soldiers in World War One. So they found other ways to ... Some women worked as nurses and some mended cars. They worked long hours. They slept on uncomfortable ...

An album of the thoughts, poems and drawings of First World War soldiers collected by a nurse reveals a new account of the 1914 ... wounded soldiers Maude met after they came home from war. One of at ...