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This Small Army of Women : Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War

Quiney, Linda J., author

Overview

\"With her linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the Great War. This book tells the story of the nearly two thousand women from Canada and Newfoundland who volunteered to \"do their bit\" overseas and at home. Well-educated and middle-class but largely untrained, VADs were excluded from Canadian military hospitals overseas (the realm of the professional nurse) but helped solve Britain's nursing deficit. Their struggle to secure a place at their brothers' bedsides reveals much about the tensions surrounding amateur and professional nurses and women's evolving role outside the home.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Subject: World War (1914-1918) / 1900-1999 / Military nursing Canada History 20th century. / Military nursing Newfoundland and Labrador History 20th century. / Nurses Canada History 20th century. / Nurses Newfoundland and Labrador History 20th century. / Voluntary aid detachments. / World War, 1914-1918 Medical care Canada. / World War, 1914-1918 Women Canada. / Medical care. / Military nursing. / Nurses. / Women. / Canada. / Newfoundland and Labrador.
• ISBN: 9780774830713, 0774830719

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D629.C2 Q55 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE