Hospitals, medical pioneers and the nursing contribution
Where an injured soldier met and married the nurse who helped him get better
Spas, usually reserved for society’s elite, opened their doors to wounded soldiers
The only war hospital raised by a city
The Caton nurse who was awarded a French medal for her war efforts in France
The largest war hospital in Birmingham during WW1
A hospital for wounded soldiers was created at Queen's University in Belfast during WW1.
Craiglockhart War Hospital was at the heart of pioneering PTSD treatments.
The only woman to be remembered on Lenton War Memorial
Upper and middle classes who had never worked before helped nurse soldiers
Childhood diseases claimed the lives of 135 Scottish Highlanders training in the town
Exeter’s Elsie Knocker and her fight for first aid at the front
One of the most significant nursing figures in WW1 nursing
Walter Yeo – a bugler, a gunner and one of the first men to have plastic surgery
Surgeon Leonard Joyce discovers bacteria to aid healing of battlefield wounds
The emergence of British pharmaceutical innovations