International Nurses Day is celebrated on the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale in 1820. Nightingale was called 'The Angel with the Lamp', because of her pioneering nursing service with the British Army during the Crimean War.
"when all the medical officers have retired for the night, and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds" letter from Scutari, in the Times, February 1855.
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