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• 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 uploaded File:Register.jpeg
• 08:23, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Register.jpeg
• 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 uploaded File:Kuala.jpg
• 07:29, 10 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Kuala.jpg
• 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 uploaded File:Paper-poppy50px.png
• 22:31, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Paper-poppy50px.png
• 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
• 20:12, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs uploaded File:Khediveismail.jpg
• 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.")
• 19:21, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:TFNS (Created page with "The Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS) was originally formed to staff the territorial force hospitals at home, and the majority of its members spent their wartime service in the United Kingdom, not only in the 25 territorial hospitals, but also in hundreds of auxiliary units throughout the British Isles. Within a short time they were also employed in the eighteen territorial hospitals abroad, and alongside their QAIMNS colleagues in military hospitals and casualty...")
• 19:20, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:QAIMNSR (Created page with "The experience of the Boer War in South Africa, led to reorganisation of the Army Nursing Service and in 1902 Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was established, followed by the QAIMNS Reserve in 1908. These nursing services mobilised for duty with the Expeditionary Force, serving through the war years on every front. In World War II, the QAIMNS & QAIMNSR served in every campaign, nursing the sick and wounded and sharing the hazards of warfare...")
• 19:19, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:QAIMNS (Created page with "The experience of the Boer War in South Africa, led to reorganisation of the Army Nursing Service and in 1902 Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was established, followed by the QAIMNS Reserve in 1908. These nursing services mobilised for duty with the Expeditionary Force, serving through the war years on every front. In World War II, the QAIMNS & QAIMNSR served in every campaign, nursing the sick and wounded and sharing the hazards of warfare...")
• 19:18, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:PCANSR (Created page with "The small number of full time nurses in the Army Nursing Service was always going to be a problem in a major conflict. In 1897 an Army Nursing Service Reserve was established, run by a committee chaired by Princess Christian, hence it was known as Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve (PCANSR). In wartime it came under the direction of the War Office. During the war in South Africa the PCANSR underpinned the employment of some 2000 nurses from all over the...")
• 19:17, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:ANS (Created page with "In 1881 the Army Nursing Service (ANS) was formed. Nurses wore military uniform and were employed directly to care for military patients. The ANS, although nominally a military formation was not an established part of the Army and did not sit within any of the directorates of the War Office. Army Nursing sisters served in support of many of the campaigns that took place between the Crimean War and the Boer War. This category lists those nurses who served in the ANS.")
• 19:14, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:Victorian (Created page with "In 1881 the Army Nursing Service (ANS) was formed. Nurses wore military uniform and were employed directly to care for military patients. The ANS, although nominally a military formation was not an established part of the Army and did not sit within any of the directorates of the War Office. Army Nursing sisters served in support of many of the campaigns that took place between the Crimean War and the Boer War. This page lists those nurses who were members of the ANS at...")
• 18:57, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs uploaded File:MewithiPadsmall.png
• 18:57, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:MewithiPadsmall.png
• 18:55, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Spires, Keiron Andrew (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Lt Col (Retired) Keiron Spires QVRM TD== ===Military Nurse=== I trained as a general nurse in the Army Medical Services. After working in acute surgical areas I was seconded to The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, to train as a children’s nurse. Following this, I worked on a children’s ward in a military hospital in Germany for five years. When I left the Regular Army and joined the Reserve, my military nursing career reverted bac...")
• 17:32, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs uploaded File:Qaimns ww2 jobs.jpg
• 17:32, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Qaimns ww2 jobs.jpg
• 17:31, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs uploaded File:Jerusalem1943.jpeg
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• 17:30, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs uploaded File:AmbulanceTrain1.jpeg
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• 17:29, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs uploaded File:Barge care.jpg
• 17:29, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page File:Barge care.jpg
• 17:15, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Copyright (Created page with "Copyright (c) 2024 Lt Col (Retd) Keiron Spires QVRM TD")
• 17:13, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Disclaimers (Created page with "-")
• 17:13, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Aboutsite (Created page with "-")
• 17:12, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Privacy (Created page with "-")
• 16:42, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page British Army Nursing (Created page with "This should be the landing page")
• 16:42, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Mainpage (Created page with "British Army Nursing")
• 13:30, 9 March 2024 WikiSysop talk contribs created page Category:Boer War (Created page with "This category lists those nurses serving in the Boer War")