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Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes, an inseparable duo, set off from Montreal in June 1915 to function nursing sisters within the Great War. Over the following four years, the 2 cared for every other through sickness and health, air raids and bombings, unrelenting work and adventurous leaves.This thoughtfully curated number of their letters home paints a vivid account of nursing in the course of the battles of Gallipoli, Passchendaele, and beyond. Mildred and Laura were remarkably forthright, revealing how they depended on friendship, humour, and professional ethics to hold on within the face of mismanagement, discrimination, deprivation, and trauma.