Florence Nightingale and Military Remembrance
Journal: Victorians
Year: 2022

This paper provides an overview of military remembrance in the context of Florence Nightingale's determination to memorialize fallen soldiers at Castle Hospital, Balaklava in the Crimean War (1854-56). It includes previously unpublished correspondence between Florence Nightingale and the Commander-in-Chief of the British army at the time, Lieutenant General W. J. Codrington. This correspondence reveals a moving and astonishing commitment from Nightingale to secure and erect what would prove to b