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*[[BARNFATHER: Unsettling News| "Unsettling News", September 1939, England]]
*[[BARNFATHER: Unsettling News| "Unsettling News", September 1939, England]]
*[[BARNFATHER: London 1940| London, 1940]]
*[[BARNFATHER: London 1940| London, 1940]]
*[[BARNFATHER: Norway 1940| Norway, 1940]]


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Latest revision as of 13:12, 9 March 2025

Biography

Winifred Emma (Freda) Barnfather was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 5th December 1912[1]. Her father was a Grocer's Manager and they lived in Gosforth, Northumberland[2]. She trained as a nurse at Whipps Cross Hospital, London between 1934 and 1938[3]. Not long after she joined the Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS). The 1939 register shows her living in Tidworth House, Tidworth and her occupation as TANS Nurse.

Nursing Service in World War 2

Freda recalled her service in WW2 (along with all the TANS nurses she was granted an emergency commission in 1942[4]) and wrote it all down in a document which is transcribed here:

References

  1. 1939 Register for England and Wales RG101/2368C/006/11
  2. 1921 Census for England and Wales RG15 560/2/4/279
  3. UK & Ireland, Nursing Registers, 1898-1968, 1943 p.168
  4. The London Gazette, 3rd Supplement, 27 January 1942 p.499