List of nurses who died in World War I

[2] Other Australian women made their own way to Europe and joined the British Red Cross, private hospitals or other allied services.

[42] In one incident, on 27 June 1918, 14 nurses were killed when their hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed while travelling from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool, England.

Marjory Eva May Edwards served for three and a half years in Britain and France and died of measles in England on 4 January 1918.

[54] Miss Climie was killed instantly while in the same incident Sister Mabel Milne of Perth, who trained at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and was attached to the 2nd Scottish General Hospital died a short time after being wounded.

[57] On 31 December 1917, the British troop ship HMS Osmanieh (1906) struck a mine near the entrance to Alexandria Harbour.

[59] Two of them belonged to the Queen Alexandria’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS): and the rest belonged to the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD): York Minster’s Five Sisters window is the only memorial in the UK dedicated to all the women of the British Empire who lost their lives in World War I.

[63] Nurses Clara Ayres and Helen Burnett Wood were the first two women to be killed while part of the United States military when they died on 17 May 1917, following an accident on board USS Mongolia.

[65] Lucy Nettie Fletcher (1886–1918) was the first Red Cross nurse in General Pershing's army to die in the performance of duty.