'The Nightingale's Song to to the Sick Soldier', 1854. Artist: Unknown

'The Nightingale's Song to to the Sick Soldier', 1854. Florence Nightingale tending a sick soldier in hospital in the Crimea. In 1854, during the Crimean War (1853-1856), Sidney Herbert, Secretary of State for War, appointed the English nurse Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), a family friend, to introduce female nurses into the British military hospitals in the Crimea. Until the end of the war she worked tirelessly to improve conditions. From Punch. (London, 1854).

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