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    TIMELINE OF... BRITISH ARMY NURSING

    Feb 19, 2018 1 minute
    Source:   British nurses tend wounded and sick soldiers amid the difficult conditions at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during the Crimean War  

    1854

    CRISIS IN CRIMEA

    Florence Nightingale trains and leads 38 nurses to tend British sick and wounded during the Crimean War, the first mission of its kind outside the British Isles.

    Members of the Royal Air Force Nursing Service after receiving the Royal

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