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==The Nurses==
This wiki holds pages for over 2,500 British Army nurses<ref>plus some from other Commonwealth countries and some civilians and religious orders who cared for British sick and wounded</ref> spanning more than a century of military nursing history. You can use the search bar to find any nurse by name, or browse by clicking one of the category links below. You can also search for specific terms — such as a hospital, ship, location, or medical condition — to find nurses connected to that topic.
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{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! Service
! Era
! Notable
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| [[:Category:ANS|Army Nursing Service (ANS)]] || [[:Category:Victorian|Victorian]] || [[:Category:MM|Military Medal]]
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| [[:Category:PCANSR|Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service Reserve (PCANSR)]] || [[:Category:Boer War|Boer War]] || [[:Category:RRC|Royal Red Cross]]
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| [[:Category:QAIMNS|Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS)]] || [[:Category:Post Boer War|Post Boer War]] || [[:Category:Died in Service|Died in Service]]
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| [[:Category:QAIMNSR|Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR)]] || [[:Category:WW1|World War One]] || [[:Category:Lost at Sea|Lost at Sea]]
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| [[:Category:TFNS|Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS)]] || [[:Category:Between the wars|Between the Wars]] ||
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| [[:Category:TANS|Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS)]] || [[:Category:WW2|World War Two]] ||
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| [[:Category:QARANC|Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC)]] || ||
|}
Pages marked as [[:Category:Stub|Stub]] are newly created and awaiting further research and editing.
==Work in Progress==
==Work in Progress==
This site is an ongoing project, with material being consolidated from earlier websites and archival sources. Current work focuses on transferring and developing the following sections:
This site is an ongoing project, with material being consolidated from earlier websites and archival sources. Current work focuses on transferring and developing the following sections:
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The collection of pages for individual nurses, which forms the spine of the site, is being added to continuously. If you have information about a nurse that you would like to share in order to help create or develop a page, please use the contact form to get in touch.
The collection of pages for individual nurses, which forms the spine of the site, is being added to continuously. If you have information about a nurse that you would like to share in order to help create or develop a page, please use the contact form to get in touch.
==Using the Wiki==
This site is organised as a wiki, meaning that information is spread across many linked pages rather than contained in a single linear narrative. You can explore the site by following links within the text, using the search box at the top of the page to look for individual nurses, places, or services, or browsing through related pages via categories shown on each page. Pages are intended to be read independently, but also form part of a wider connected structure, allowing readers to move easily between individual nurses, historical context, and source material.

Revision as of 22:06, 10 May 2026

History and Heritage of British Army Nurses

This is a wiki for the history and heritage of British Army nurses and nursing, including the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps and its antecedents (Army Nursing Service; Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service (Reserve); Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service and its Reserve, Territorial Force Nursing Service, Territorial Army Nursing Service).

The origins of the project lie in my PhD research, a prosopography of nurses who served during the South African (Boer) War. This work was subsequently expanded to include nurses who may have served as Army nurses before the Boer War, as well as the impact of Boer War veterans on the development of military nursing during the First World War. Over time, the site has evolved into a general repository for information relating to British Army nurses.



The Nurses

This wiki holds pages for over 2,500 British Army nurses[1] spanning more than a century of military nursing history. You can use the search bar to find any nurse by name, or browse by clicking one of the category links below. You can also search for specific terms — such as a hospital, ship, location, or medical condition — to find nurses connected to that topic.

  1. plus some from other Commonwealth countries and some civilians and religious orders who cared for British sick and wounded
Service Era Notable
Army Nursing Service (ANS) Victorian Military Medal
Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service Reserve (PCANSR) Boer War Royal Red Cross
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) Post Boer War Died in Service
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR) World War One Lost at Sea
Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS) Between the Wars
Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS) World War Two
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC)

Pages marked as Stub are newly created and awaiting further research and editing.

Work in Progress

This site is an ongoing project, with material being consolidated from earlier websites and archival sources. Current work focuses on transferring and developing the following sections:

The collection of pages for individual nurses, which forms the spine of the site, is being added to continuously. If you have information about a nurse that you would like to share in order to help create or develop a page, please use the contact form to get in touch.