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- 13:22, 18 April 2025 FITZMAURICE, Flora Kathleen (hist | edit) [736 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== Flora Kathleen FITZMAURICE trained at the Royal City of Dublin Hospital. She joined the Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) on 2July, 1900<ref>War Office: Nominal Roll of the Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) as at 30th September 1900</ref>. ==Nursing Service in the Boer War== Sister Flora Kathleen FITZMAURICE served with the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein before transferring to the South African Constabulary<re...")
- 13:18, 18 April 2025 FINLEY, Margaret Raven (hist | edit) [2,067 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== 100px|rightMargaret Finley was born on 14th June 1910 in West Malvern. She was educated at Wychcrest School, West Malvern and Cheltenham Ladies College. In 1933 she started nurse training at St Thomas' Hospital, London, qualifying in 1937. She then undertook midwifery training. She was commissioned into the QAIMNS as a Staff Nurse in October 1938, and was posted to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. In July 1939 she was posted to the Mi...")
- 13:11, 18 April 2025 DUNLOP, Doreen Violet (hist | edit) [928 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing Service in WW2== 100px|right363771 Sister DUNLOP, Doreen Violet, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was serving in Singapore in 1942. She left Singapore on the SS Kuala, which was sunk by Japanese bombers on February 14, 1942. <blockquote>… died within minutes of getting into lifeboat off Pom Pong Island<ref>Pether, M. (2012) SS Kuala Researched Passenger List version 3.3.5 http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/shi...")
- 13:07, 18 April 2025 DOWLING, N. Gwen (hist | edit) [777 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing Service in WW2== Sister DOWLING, N. Gwen, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve) (QAIMNSR) was serving at the 20th Combined General Hospital, Singapore. She left Singapore on the SS Kuala, which was sunk by Japanese bombers on February 14, 1942. <blockquote>"… reached Padang and was evacuated with six other nurses … gave evidence to 1943 enquiry …went on to serve in Quetta<ref>Pether, M. (2012) <em>SS Kuala</em> Researched Pass...")
- 11:24, 18 April 2025 DICKSON, Ruth Hannah (hist | edit) [891 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing Service in WW2== 100px|right2237772 Sister DICKSON, Ruth Hannah, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was serving in Singapore in 1942. She left Singapore on the SS Kuala, which was sunk by Japanese bombers on February 14, 1942. <blockquote>… died in internment at Palembang, Sumatra<ref>>Pether, M. (2012) <em>SS Kuala</em> Researched Passenger List version 3.3.5 http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/ships_kuala_passen...")
- 12:13, 14 April 2025 COBBOLD, Theodosia Agnes (hist | edit) [1,033 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== Mrs Theodosia Agnes COBBOLD (neé Sinclair) who was the great granddaughter of Lord Chief Justice Denman, trained at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. On the 1891 census she was listed as a Lady Nurse on the Isle of Wight<ref>The National Archives: The England Census RG12 15/951/98/19</ref>. She married Charles Augustus Cobbold in Ontario, Canada. ==Nursing Service in the Boer War== She volunteered for service with the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital and when...")
- 18:36, 13 April 2025 CHILD, Jane Charlotte (hist | edit) [2,114 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Biography== Jane Charlotte Child was born on July 1st 1864, in Brighton, Sussex. Her father was a 'flyman' (a flyman drove a two-wheeled, single horse cart - a fly)<ref>Birth Certificate (General Register Office)</ref> <ref>England & Wales Birth Index 1837-1915</ref>. Her father died when she was young and the 1871 Census<ref>The National Archives: 1871 England Census RG10, 1074, 6, 9</ref>, shows her at home with her widowed mother, and her brother Georg...")
- 18:26, 13 April 2025 Bibliography (hist | edit) [9,539 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==Bibliographic Resources== Please let us know (via the contact page) if you think there are other items we could add to this bibliography. ==General Nursing & Military Nursing History== Abel-Smith, B. (1960) <strong>History of the nursing profession</strong>. London: Heinemann Ardern, P. (2005) <strong>The Nursing Sister: A Caring Tradition</strong>. Robert Hale Baly, M. (1995) <strong>Nursing and Social Change</strong>. London: Routledge Bassett, J. (1992) <st...")
- 18:14, 13 April 2025 DRIVER, Helen Octavia (hist | edit) [123 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Holding page for diary * August 1914")
- 18:12, 13 April 2025 Driver: August 1914 (hist | edit) [18,886 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==August 1914== ===Monday 3rd=== Volunteered for foreign service at War Office. ===Saturday 8th=== I joined the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. & was called up for active service at once with instructions to collect a Camping Kit & Uniform within the next seven days, for which I was allowed £23 by the War Office, and to present myself with my baggage at Charing X Hotel at 6 p.m. on Sunday the 16th. ===Sunday 16th=== My colleagues & I arrived at Charing X Hotel w...")
- 14:36, 13 April 2025 Robinson: August 13th - August 31st 1914 (hist | edit) [24,017 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==August 13th - August 31st 1914= ===August 13th=== We left A’shot at 9.15 for where - ? We know not, after waiting 2¼ hrs at the station sitting on our baggage. Cheers en route. Arrive S’hampton Water at 11.00 hrs. Major Blaine & Cpt. Robell most good to us & gave us unlimited tea & biscuits. We stayed in their little telephone office until 2.00am. The <i>S.S. Corsican </I>who was to have taken us on board held up by fog in Channel. At last 2.45am the...")
- 13:55, 13 April 2025 Robinson: Early Years (hist | edit) [6,651 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Biography== Charlotte Lilian Annie Robinson (known as Lilian) was born in Shanghai, China in 1884<ref name="CensusRG12">The National Archives: England Census 1891, Class: RG12; Piece: 681; Folio: 66; Page: 25</ref>. Her father, Alfred Murray Robinson, was a solicitor in Shanghai, as was her elder brother Edward<ref>Foster, J (1885) Men at the Bar 2nd Edition. London: Hazel, Watson & Viney Ltd</ref>. Lilian’s mother Harriet was Alfred’s second wife,...")
- 13:23, 9 March 2025 BARNFATHER: Norway 1940 (hist | edit) [13,787 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Norway, 1940== The weather was sunny as we left the land behind, but very cold. The sea was calm so we spent as much time as possible on deck enjoying the sunshine. Food was varied and plentiful compared with what we had been accustomed to having in England with food rationing in force. In fact, it would have been very easy to imagine we were on a peace time cruise except for our uniforms. Quite suddenly the sea’s motion changed as her engines stopped. The ensuing s...")
- 15:00, 8 March 2025 BARNFATHER: London 1940 (hist | edit) [7,315 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==London, 1940== There was just less than a week to go before Christmas and we were to have seven days leave. Afterwards we were to report to an address in Gloucester Road, London. On the Saturday before we were due to leave Tidworth I pulled a muscle in my thigh whilst playing hockey. My first thought was "I'll be left behind". I needn't have worried. After all this was a hospital and there was a practising physiotherapist among the V.A.D.s on the staff. That same even...")
- 12:17, 8 March 2025 BARNFATHER: Unsettling News (hist | edit) [7,915 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==“Unsettling News”== <center><b>September 1939</b></center> <center><b>England</b></center> "England is at war with Germany." Ominous words broadcast by Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, on Sunday morning September 3, 1939. That message was heard by millions of people all over the world, and many and varied were their reactions. At home, the older generation who had not forgotten the First World War and all its horrors, heard the message with sinking...")
- 11:44, 8 March 2025 BARNFATHER, Winifred Emma (hist | edit) [1,156 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== Winifred Emma (Freda) Barnfather was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 5th December 1912<ref>1939 Register for England and Wales RG101/2368C/006/11</ref>. Her father was a Grocer's Manager and they lived in Gosforth, Northumberland<ref>1921 Census for England and Wales RG15 560/2/4/279</ref>. She trained as a nurse at Whipps Cross Hospital, London between 1934 and 1938<ref> UK & Ireland, Nursing Registers, 1898-1968, 1943 p.168</ref>. Not long after she j...")
- 15:54, 7 February 2025 LUARD, Kate Evelyn (hist | edit) [786 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Context== Kate Luard joined the Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service (Reserve) in March 1900, and served in South Africa during the Boer War. Although she is best known for her letters from WW1 published as <b>Unknown Warriors</b>, she also wrote many letters home from her first period of military service in South Africa. These letters are in the [https://www.essexrecordoffice.co.uk|Essex County Record Office] (in bundle D/DLu 55/13/3). List of Letters transcr...")
- 13:17, 7 February 2025 BARCLAY, Margaret: Christ Church Cathedral, Port Stanley (hist | edit) [5,329 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Arrival at Port Stanley== frame|right|150px|<center>CAPTAIN M E BARCLAY QARANC IN FRONT OF 2 FIELD HOSPITAL SIGN OUTSIDE THE CHURCHILL WING OF KING EDWARD VII HOSPITAL, PORT STANLEY</center>I arrived in Port Stanley on Sunday the 11th of July 1982 and although I continued to live on board <I>Rangatira</I> for about six weeks, with a daily commute to the hospital by Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel (LCVP), I worshipped every Sunday a...")
- 12:53, 7 February 2025 BARCLAY, Margaret: Memories of a distant war (hist | edit) [10,849 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==The Journey South== frame|right|150px|<center>CAPTAIN M E BARCLAY QARANC ASHORE ON SAPPER HILL. TEV RANGATIRA ANCHORED IN STANLEY HARBOUR IN FAR BACKGROUND. KING EDWARD VII MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN BACKGROUND 12TH JULY 1982</center> Since the cease fire on the 14th June The Falkland Islands remained on a war footing and high alert for months until at least December 1982. A formal agreement of cessation of hostilities was never in sight! <I...")
- 12:22, 7 February 2025 BARCLAY, Margaret: 1976 to the Summer of 1982 (hist | edit) [9,716 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "1976 Maggie Barclay en route to the Falkland Islands CAPTAIN M E BARCLAY QARANC ABOARD TEV RANGATIRA, ARRIVING AT ASCENSION ISLAND EARLY MORNING 30TH JUNE 1982 At 1100hrs on the 11th of November 1976, while much of the nation was observing two minutes silence for those who had died in the two Great Wars and other conflicts, I was ushered into Room 127 at AMD4, Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London W18 6AA for my interview for a commission in the Queen Alexandra’s Ro...")
- 12:18, 7 February 2025 BARCLAY, Margaret (hist | edit) [1,659 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Context== right|250pxMargaret Barclay (known as Maggie) was born in May 1948 in Stafford. Her extended family were Staffordshire dairy farmers so much of her childhood was spent on the farms. Maggie and her two sisters had easy access to, and the freedom of the Staffordshire rural countryside, animals, nature and the natural world at weekends and school holidays. She was a Cadet Nurse at Stafford College of Further Education and Staffords...")
- 21:11, 4 February 2025 EJW: July 1900 (hist | edit) [19,810 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Woods, Emily Jane: Diary for July 1900== <I>Transcribed from the original by Lt Col (Retd) Keiron Spires QVRM TD</I> <b>July 1st</b>: I didn’t write such a long letter as I meant to because I was feeling seedy and had been ordered to bed. (Diarrhoea etc but we all go through it when we 1st come out). I am not ill and have the best of attention. Well! You ask me to tell you everything about ourselves. Our lovely corrugated iron building we were crowing over is not...")
- 16:27, 4 February 2025 EJW: June 1900 (hist | edit) [23,539 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Woods, Emily Jane: Diary for June 1900== <I>Transcribed from the original by Lt Col (Retd) Keiron Spires QVRM TD</I> <b>10th June</b>: Anchored in the basin 1/2 hr. after midnight (this morning). It was a lovely evening. We had dancing on deck. There is a big moon now and it was so beautifully clear. Table Mountain looked lovely. We went to bed soon after 2 a.m. and got up at 1/4 to 7. The sun was rising and looked lovely on the hills. I took a series of 3 views fro...")
- 22:58, 2 February 2025 Florence 2020 History of Nursing Conference (hist | edit) [2,657 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Context== left|250pxThe Florence2020 Conference was held from the 13th-15th February 2020 in Florence, Italy, to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Florence Nightingale. The QARANC Association Heritage Committee submitted 3 linked papers to the peer-review panel and were very pleased to have all 3 accepted. The conference opened in the Salone dei Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio, whilst the main conference even...")
- 22:23, 2 February 2025 Alice McHardy: Chapter 6 (hist | edit) [40,126 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==CHAPTER 6 : MALTA 1942== (Transcribed from the diary of Alice McHardy QAIMNS(R) About the middle of December 1941 the air raids began to increase. We soon realised that the Germans had returned to Sicily and that Kesselring was in charge. Morning after morning as we sisters were going on duty at eight the air raid siren would start up, and in no time at all the sky would be full of Messerschmitts and bombers making for the air strips and harbour. A...")
- 22:15, 2 February 2025 Alice McHardy: Early Years (hist | edit) [8,220 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Her Family== Alice Mary McHardy, Alice, as she was known by her family, Mary in her nursing circles, was born in 1905 in Aberdeen, the oldest of the four children of Peter McHardy, a seed merchant whose family were gamekeepers on the estates around Balmoral and his wife, Nelly Faulkner Tough, a musician and piano teacher. Nelly died in 1911, leaving Peter with four children under seven. Alice recalled standing on a river bridge when she was fetched home and r...")
- 22:02, 2 February 2025 McHARDY, Alice (hist | edit) [760 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Context== right|250pxAlice McHardy volunteered for the QAIMNS Reserve between the wars when she was already qualified as a State Registered Nurse and working in Liverpool. She was one of many professional nurses recruited into the QAIMNS Reserve when it was clear that a second war was likely and that a corps of trained nurses would be needed. Her family have her photographs, her diary, and some audio and video tapes, which collectively form...")
- 19:29, 1 February 2025 LLOYD, Ethel Beatrice (hist | edit) [5,526 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== 50px|left right|250pxEthel Beatrice LLOYD (known as Beatrice), was born in Lewisham, Kent in 1874<ref>England and Wales FreeBMD Birth Index 1837-1915</ref>. Her father was a ‘Tea Broker’<ref>The National Archives: England Census 1881 RG11/ 738/ 53/ 34</ref> <ref>The National Archives: England Census 1891 RG12/ 526/ /39/ 3</ref>. She trained at The London Hospital<ref>War Office (1900) Nominal Roll of...")
