British Nannies & the Great War

The true story of how highly-trained Edwardian women in the First World War “coped with their charges as the bombs rained down” ( Daily Express ). In 1912, Norland children’s nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to the base’s commanding officer. Two years later, Kate was escaping from Germany in the first days of the Great War, leaving behind her adored German royal charges and all her