Bravery of My Mom
In World War One, nurses were doing dangerous work who volunteered to experience war firsthand. Shirley Williams wrote the experiences that people went through. Her mother, Vera Brittain, lost her close young men that she loved and turned herself to nursing. She went to some of the dreadful battlegrounds in an attempt to ease her pain.
Other's
Young citizens believed that the war would be short. They were saying, "Though your boys are far away, they will soon come home." Women had to go to work in factories or stay at home patiently. The main trained corps of military nurses was the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS). It was founded in 1902 at the time of the Boer war and in 1914 was less than 300 strong. Powerful women who ran large families and large estates were well versed in management and saw no great problems in managing a military hospital instead. Their confidence in their own abilities was impressive. The image and the conspicuous Red Cross uniforms were romantic but the work itself exhausting, unending and sometimes disgusting. Relations between professional nurses and the volunteer assistants were constrained by rigid and unbending discipline.