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• 06:29, 19 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs protected SS Khedive Ismail [Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [cascading] (hist)
• 06:28, 19 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs protected The Boer War [Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [cascading] (hist)
• 06:28, 19 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs protected British Army Nursing [Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [cascading] (hist)
• 15:52, 18 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page WOODS, Emily Jane (Created page with "==Biography== Emily Jane Wood was born c.1867; the 1871 census records her as aged 4 and living at 12 Oriel Terrace, Hastings, with her parents and sister Alice. At the time of the 1881 census, aged 14, she was attending Kenilworth College in Hastings, whilst the 1891 census records her as living at 113 Markwick Terrace, St Leonards, with her sister and widowed mother. ==Nursing in the Boer War (1899-1902)== In April 1894 she joined Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI), ward 1...")
• 10:51, 17 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Ages (Created page with "Context The data item “Age (as at 1899)” indicated the approximate age of the nurses for whom this information was known. It did not indicate the age of a nurse at the time of her service, as exact dates of service were not known, nonetheless, with the Boer War only lasting three years it gave a good approximation to allow for the examination of the age of the cohort of nurses as a whole. Data Sources The main data source for the ages of the nurses was the census....")
• 10:50, 17 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page A Balanced View (Created page with "It is important that we have a balanced view of the ladies who went to South Africa, and became involved in nursing for good or bad. Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill summed this up when visiting Cape Town from the Hospital Ship Maine1: “I dined at the Mount Nelson Hotel, where I must own to having been much astonished – the dresses, the babble of both men and women, were bewildering, and seemed under the circumstances rather out of place, and a great contrast to the...")
• 10:48, 17 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Recognition (Created page with "The service of many of these ladies, was recognised either in the award of the Royal Red Cross, or in the issue of the Queen’s South Africa Campaign Medal: Royal Red Cross Lady Beatrice Chesham, for service at the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital1 Lady Beatrice Chesham Lady Beatrice Chesham Lady Sarah Wilson, for service at Mafeking2 Queen’s South Africa Campaign Medal Lady Beatrice Chesham3 Miss Gertrude Geld & Mrs Beatrice Elizabeth Guillemard “These two ladies r...")
• 09:09, 17 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Wilsonmafeking.jpeg
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• 09:07, 17 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Capable Women (Created page with "Not all of the ladies travelling to South Africa fell into the category of ‘social butterfly’. Many travelled to South Africa with their husbands who were themselves serving in the Field Force sent to South Africa. Others took advice from government and military officials about how they might help and support the war effort, most usually by supporting the medical and nursing services. Lady Rolleston The experience of Lady Maud Rolleston was in stark contrast to tha...")
• 09:01, 17 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Society Butterflies (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context= The majority of the society ladies arriving in South Africa were seen as a nuisance by the nursing and medical staff, as seen in this letter to the press from an Army nurse<ref>A plague of women: Views of an Army nurse at the front (1900) '''Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser'''. Wednesday 09 May 1900, p7g</ref>: <blockquote>''“The ‘lady amateur’ crops up everywhere when military excitement is going on. Lord Kitchener himself took most str...")
• 08:40, 17 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Wynberg.jpeg
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• 08:34, 17 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Possibly-Christina-Anne-Jessica-ne-Cavendish-Bentinck-Lady-Sykes.jpg
• 08:34, 17 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs uploaded File:Possibly-Christina-Anne-Jessica-ne-Cavendish-Bentinck-Lady-Sykes.jpg
• 08:27, 17 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Introduction (Created page with "==Context== At the time of the Boer War the Victorian era was coming to an end, and many changes were taking place that influenced the way in which the war was perceived, and the responses of society to it. There was a greater freedom from domesticity, and greater personal freedom for women, including travelling abroad. This was reflected in both literature and the press. It was also a time when empire and imperialism dominated both political and social discourse. This...")
• 22:28, 14 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page BOND, Nellie Auger (Created page with "==Army Nursing Service before 1899== In 1898 Sister Nellie Auger BOND was serving at the Military Hospital Netley<ref>Army List 1898</ref>. In 1898 she married and left the service. She was the sister of Alice Sweeting BOND. ==References== <References /> Category:Victorian Category:ANS")
• 22:25, 14 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page BLOOMER, Caroline Augusta (Created page with "==Army Nursing Service before 1899== In 1898 Sister Caroline Augusta BLOOMER was serving at the Military Hospital Dublin<ref>Army List 1898</ref>. ==References== <References /> Category:Victorian Category:ANS")
• 10:01, 13 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Katedriver.jpg
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• 09:56, 13 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Londonnurses.png
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• 21:25, 12 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Motivation (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== That nurses were eager to volunteer for service in South Africa was evident from the reports in the media at the time. In their journals and letters some nurses gave their own reasons for serving in South Africa. Some were asked personally to volunteer. A group of nurses from the London Hospital were selected by the Matron and asked to go to South Africa on behalf of the Princess of Wales who had a close relationship with the hospital. Sisters Eliza...")
• 14:24, 12 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Expanding the military nursing workforce (Created page with "It was clear from the start of the Boer War there would not be enough nurses to support the force being deployed. The expansion of the nursing reserve force to meet the requirements of the Boer War fell to a committee with representation from the Army Nursing Reserve, the St John Ambulance Association, the National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War, and the Army Medical Department. This committee became the Central British Red Cross Committee under the chair...")
• 10:09, 12 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page The Boer War (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== The Boer War is important for British Army nursing as it was the first major conflict for Britain in which nurses in any numbers had been deployed, and at the end of the war a new nursing service was set up, the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS), which saw nurses becoming a formed component of the British Army. Although there are published accounts of the Boer War and nursing histories that cover this period there were...")
• 11:49, 11 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page BEARE, MJ (Created page with "==Army Nursing Service before 1899== In 1898 Superintendent MJ Beare was serving at the Military Hospital Dublin<ref>Army List 1898</ref>. ==References== <References /> Category:Victorian Category:ANS")
• 17:54, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page ANDERSON, Adela Catherine Letitia (Created page with "==Army Nursing Service before 1899== Sister ACL Anderson (known as Catherine) enlisted in the Army Nursing Service (ANS) on October 3rd, 1894. In 1898 she was serving at the Military Hospital Rochester Row<ref>Army List 1898</ref>. ==References== <References /> Category:Victorian Category:ANS")
• 17:50, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page ANDERSON, C (Created page with "==Army Nursing Service before 1899== In 1889 Sister C Anderson was serving at a Military Hospital in Egypt<ref>Army List 1898</ref>. ==References== <References /> Category:Victorian Category:ANS")
• 11:58, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page ADDAMS-WILLIAMS, Florence Ellen (Created page with "==Army Nursing Service before 1899== Superintendent Florence Ellen ADDAMS WILLIAMS enlisted in the Army Nursing Service (ANS) on October 1st, 1885. In 1898 she was serving at the Military Hospital Canterbury<ref>Army List 1898</ref>. ==References== <References /> Category:ANS")
• 08:23, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Register.jpeg
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• 08:14, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:RRC (Created page with "This category lists those nurses who were awarded either the Royal Red Cross or the Associate Royal Red Cross. For more information about the history of this award see the page: [Royal Red Cross].")
• 08:01, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Royal Red Cross (Created page with "The Royal Red Cross (RRC) was instituted by Queen Victoria on St George’s Day 1883: <BLOCKQUOTE>War Office, April 27, 1883. VICTORIA, R. WHEREAS We have been pleased to take into Our consideration the services rendered by certain persons in nursing the sick and wounded of Our Army and Navy, and have resolved specially to recognise individual instances of special devotion in such service ; Now, for the purpose of attaining this end, We have instituted, constituted, an...")
• 07:37, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page AYERS, Eileen Norah (Created page with "==Nursing Service in WW2== 206581 Sister AYERS, Eileen Norah, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was serving at the17th Combined General Hospital, Singapore. She left Singapore on the SS Kuala, which was sunk by Japanese bombers on February 14, 1942<ref name="COFEPOW">Pether, M. (2012) SS Kuala Researched Passenger List version 3.3.5 (available from the COFEPOW website)</ref>. <blockquote>… last seen after first direct hit on ship by MA Eva...")
• 07:29, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Kuala.jpg
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• 07:27, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page SS Kuala (Created page with "The ''SS Kuala'' was a small coastal ship converted into an auxiliary vessel. While still taking on passengers, the ''SS Kuala'' was attacked by wave after wave of enemy aircraft, killing dozens of passengers including an Army nurse. The ship was carrying 600 people, 500 of whom were civilians. Half of these were women and children. Scores were injured by shrapnel fragments and flying glass. It left Singapore on February 14th as the Japanese advanced. There were about...")
• 23:10, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:Contexts (Created page with "These pages contain some of the contexts underpinning Army nursing:")
• 22:45, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Command and Control of Army nursing (Created page with "==Command & Control of Army Nurses== When the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was formed in 1902, it was decided that the Army nurses should be managed by a Matron-in-Chief. The first Matron-in-Chief of the QAIMNS was Sidney Jane Browne (later Dame). She trained as a nurse in West Bromwich and joined the Army Nursing Service on July 1, 1883<ref>The National Archives: War Office Nominal Roll of Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service (R...")
• 22:31, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Paper-poppy50px.png
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• 22:29, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:Died (Created page with "This category lists those nurses who died on active service.")
• 22:29, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:WW2 (Created page with "This category lists those nurses who served during WW2.")
• 20:22, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page RICHARDSON, Sybil Gwendoline (Created page with "===Nursing Service in WW2=== 206418 Sister Sybil Gwendoline Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service was killed at sea on the 12th February 1944, when the ''SS Khedive Ismail'' was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Indian Ocean1,2,3. She is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial, Panel 22. Column 34. ===References=== #Smith, AK (2004) Gender & Warfare in the twentieth century: Textual representations. Manchester: MUP. p112. #Worsley, P. (Ed) (2010)...")
• 20:12, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Khediveismail.jpg
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• 19:34, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:Episodes (Created page with "This category contains pages about episodes that affected 1 or more Army nurses.")
• 19:31, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page SS Khedive Ismail (Created page with "The ''SS Khedive Ismail'' was a steamship sunk with great loss of life in 1944. On 6 February 1944 Convoy KR-8 sailed from Kilindini Harbour at Mombasa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon. The convoy consisted of five troop transports (''Khedive Ismail, City of Paris, Varsova, Ekma & Ellenga''), escorted by the heavy cruiser ''HMS Hawkins'' and the destroyers ''HMS Petard'' and ''HMS Paladin''. In the early afternoon of Saturday 12 February 1944, a Japanese submarine sank the ''S...")
• 19:23, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:QARANC (Created page with "On 1st February 1949 the QAIMNS became Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC). In July 1950 the first non-commissioned ranks were admitted to the Corps, and in 1954 the first nurses to undertake State Registered Nurse training within the Corps successfully passed their examinations. However, the QARANC was still an all-female organisation as male nurses at this point, were members of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), and it was not until April 1992 that...")
• 19:22, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:TANS (Created page with "The Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS) was formed in 1920, when the Territorial Force was renamed the Territorial Army. It existed until 1949, when both regular and reserve nurses joined the QARANC. Territorial Army nurses served alongside QAIMNS nurses all over the world, and in all campaigns during WW2. This category lists those nurses who served in the TANS.")