Second cousin and goddaughter to Florence Nightingale, Miss Shore served as a military nurse in both the Boer War and First World War. Her prolific experience as a civilian nurse meant she was in the right place at the right time, where rapid advances in medicine, medical facilities, and the nursing profession, created a demand for highly skilled and experienced veteran nurses. Florence Nightingale Shore would therefore find herself on frontline of army nursing developing within its own right – although her life would encounter an untimely tragedy…