Profiles

The American Red Cross History and Museum

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Louisa Maertz, 1837-1918, was an untrained United States Civil War nurse and later became Secretary of the Blessing Hospital Board of Lady Managers in Quincy, Illinois. She was also a writer and philanthropist.

The Military Nurses of Canada is a book compiling personal recollections of Canadian Military Nurses throughout history. This website offers ordering information and a sample excerpt with photos. Edith Landells-Lees, Editor

Edith Cavell - A Norfolk Heroine 1865-1915. Nurse Edith Cavell was born in Swardeston, Norfolk, and worked as a Nurse in Belgium in World War I. She was arrested for helping allied soldiers to freedom and executed by the German authorities.

A statue in St. Martin's Place, just off London's Trafalgar Square, prominently displays words spoken by Edith Cavell, a British nurse executed during the First World War:

A fanatically selfless sense of duty drove nurse Edith Cavell to harbor Allied soldiers behind German lines.

hall of fame, 1976 inductee, Maass

Linda Richards, America's First Trained Nurse, is a Women of Courage profile, produced by the St. Lawrence County, NY Branch of the American Association of University Women.

hall of fame, 1976 inductee, Thoms

hall of fame, 1996 inductee, Blake