Scottish Nurses in the First World War: With the Scottish Nurses in Roumania by Yvonne Fitzroy & a History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals (Extract

by Yvonne Fitzroy and Eva Shaw Mclaren

Book Overview

Nursing on the Balkan front lines

At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, Dr. Elsie Inglis, approached the British War Office with the suggestion that her organisation be permitted to travel to the front to work with the R. A. M. C. and other nursing organisations caring for wounded and sick soldiers. It was reported that the War Office official she met told her: 'My good lady, go home...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782822178
• ISBN13: 9781782822172
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"