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, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.

A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes."

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in a dress in around 1863, wearing the medal. She is a white woman with dark hair tied back.
Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is a white woman with white hair wearing trousers, a frock coat and a topper. She still has the medal on the breast of her coat.

in 1846.

William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation, by the use of inhaled ether.

A month after this demonstration, a patent was issued for "letheon", although it was widely known by then that the inhalant was ether. The promotion of his questionable claim to have been the discoverer of anesthesia became an obsession for the rest of his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._G._Morton

Painting by Robert C. Hinckley, "The First Operation Under Ether" depicting the public demonstration of October 16, 1846. Robert Cutler Hinckley - “The First Operation Under Ether,” OnView, accessed June 17, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/26609.

"I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me."

British nurse Edith Cavell died in 1915.

She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Cavell was arrested, court-martialled under German military law and sentenced to death by firing squad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Cavell

Edith Cavell portrait Bain - Library of Congress In this black-and-white photograph, Cavell is dressed in her nurse’s uniform, which includes a starched white apron over a dark dress, with a high collar typical of nursing uniforms of the time. Her hair is neatly pinned up, giving her an air of professionalism and discipline. Her face is composed, with a serious yet kind expression, reflecting both her compassionate nature as a nurse and the moral courage that led to her arrest and execution by the Germans for aiding Allied soldiers.

in 1914.

Arthur Machen's short story "The Bowmen" is published in The Evening News (London).

In this story, written and published during World War I, the ghosts of archers from the battle of Agincourt, led by Saint George, come to the aid of British troops. This is cited as the origin of the Angels of Mons legend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Machen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_of_Mons

The Angels of Mons: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14044

"The Adventure of the Empty House" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Collier's in the United States in 1903, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in October 1903.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/108

Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Empty House" (1903), Illustration by Sidney Paget, in The Strand Magazine. Orginal caption: "I crept forward and looked across at the familiar window."

_The Evening Post_, 25 September 1924:
NEEDLEWORK & NERVES
There has been quite a revival of work done by hand, such as , , , etc., during the last few years.… the reasons… the war was responsible because it made so many of us knit and crochet and sew, and now that we have got used to it we go on with the work.… that prices have gone up so much that we can’t afford to buy things, and have to make them ourselves.
… that hand-made things are the fashion…. All these reasons are true, but … another reason … is that so many who lead active lives find work with their hands extraordinarily resting, and those who don’t lead active lives find rather monotonous hand work wonderfully soothing.
One woman who leads a very busy life, full of organising and …

Black-and-white photo: Man and two women leaning against a sea wall. 1920s? Photographer, Albert Hague. Description: A man and two women, possibly Harriet Jones (centre), leaning against a sea wall in an unidentified location, the women crocheting. The group is shaded by the sea wall. The man is wearing a suit and has taken off his hat, as has the woman in the centre, the hats lying in front of them. The woman at right still has her hat on. Citation: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 7013-169. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/325244