My grandfathers uncle lived to be 113 yrs old, he told my grandfather that many women volunteered to be nurses during the war. They were killed many times by disease from dealing/ handling dead people. People that were literally decomposing outside the surgical tents along with limbs just thrown out in the mud. Supposedly there was a lot of illnesses like dysentery scarlet fever, tuberculosis, consumption and other maladies killed 100, 000 thousands of people.
If you've ever been in a theater of war it's not hard to imagine what happened to women.
Anyway knowledge is power.
I am open minded about these things.