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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has launched a new website that uses personal scrapbooks, diaries and photograph albums to bring to life the experiences of wartime nurses.

More than 15,000 nurses served during the First World War as part of the Queen Alexandra Imperial Nursing Service and the Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS).

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