Florence Nightingale and Military Remembrance

This paper provides an overview of military remembrance in the context of Florence Nightingale's determination to memorialize fallen soldiers at Castle Hospital, Balaklava in the Crimean War (1854-56). It includes previously unpublished correspondence between Florence Nightingale and the Commander-in-Chief of the British army at the time, Lieutenant General W. J. Codrington. This correspondence reveals a moving and astonishing commitment from Nightingale to secure and erect what would prove to be an ill-fated monument commemorating fallen soldiers as the British Army pulled out of Crimea after the victory over Russia.