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19 March 2024

• 11:3211:32, 19 March 2024 diff hist +2‎ ADDISON, Constance Spong ‎No edit summary
• 11:3111:31, 19 March 2024 diff hist +748‎ N ADDISON, Constance Spong ‎ Created page with "==Biography== Constance Addison was born in South Africa on March 15th, 1867<ref>Family History: [http://www.hallowsgenealogy.co.uk/add03.htm]</ref>. ==Nursing Service in the Boer War (1899-1902) Nurse Constance Spong ADDISON served as a member of the Natal Volunteers<ref name="medal">The National Archives: War Office WO 100/229 Queen’s South Africa Medal Roll p221 created at Pietermaritzburg, Natal; August 24, 1901</ref>. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross for nur..."
• 11:2611:26, 19 March 2024 diff hist +10‎ ABRAHAM, Florence ‎No edit summary
• 11:2611:26, 19 March 2024 diff hist +1,106‎ N ABRAHAM, Florence ‎ Created page with "==Biography== Florence ABRAHAM was born in Melbourne, Australia about 1871<ref>The National Archive: England Census RG12/346 1891 St George’s Hospital</ref>. The 1891 census shows Florence as a probationer at St George’s Hospital. She joined Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service (Reserve) on May 4, 1900<ref>War Office (1900) Nominal Roll of Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service (Reserve) as at 30th September</ref>. ==Nursing Service in the Boer War (189..."
• 10:5310:53, 19 March 2024 diff hist +26‎ British Army Nurses ‎No edit summary
• 10:5110:51, 19 March 2024 diff hist +15‎ British Army Nurses ‎No edit summary
• 10:4810:48, 19 March 2024 diff hist 0‎ m British Army Nurses ‎ Protected "British Army Nurses" ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite)) [cascading]
• 10:4710:47, 19 March 2024 diff hist +2,576‎ N British Army Nurses ‎ Created page with "<gallery> File:AmbulanceTrain1.jpeg|alt=ambulance train WW1 File:barge_care.jpg|alt=barge WW1 File:jerusalem1943.jpeg|alt=Jerusalem 1943 File:qaimns_ww2_jobs.jpg|alt=At work WW2 </gallery> ==History and Heritage of British Army Nurses== This is a wiki for the history and heritage of 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 Nursi..."
• 10:4510:45, 19 March 2024 diff hist −1‎ MediaWiki:Mainpage ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 19 March 2024 diff hist 0‎ m WOODS, Emily Jane ‎ Protected "WOODS, Emily Jane" ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite)) [cascading]
• 06:2906:29, 19 March 2024 diff hist 0‎ m SS Kuala ‎ Protected "SS Kuala" ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite)) [cascading]
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• 06:2806:28, 19 March 2024 diff hist 0‎ m The Boer War ‎ Protected "The Boer War" ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite)) [cascading]
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18 March 2024

• 16:0116:01, 18 March 2024 diff hist +48‎ WOODS, Emily Jane ‎No edit summary
• 15:5415:54, 18 March 2024 diff hist +5‎ WOODS, Emily Jane ‎No edit summary
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• 15:5315:53, 18 March 2024 diff hist +21‎ WOODS, Emily Jane ‎No edit summary
• 15:5215:52, 18 March 2024 diff hist +2,111‎ N 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..."

17 March 2024

• 17:2217:22, 17 March 2024 diff hist +2‎ MediaWiki:Sidebar ‎No edit summary
• 17:2217:22, 17 March 2024 diff hist +69‎ MediaWiki:Sidebar ‎No edit summary
• 17:2117:21, 17 March 2024 diff hist −806‎ MediaWiki:Sidebar ‎No edit summary
• 17:1617:16, 17 March 2024 diff hist −28‎ British Army Nursing ‎No edit summary
• 17:1417:14, 17 March 2024 diff hist +1,034‎ British Army Nursing ‎No edit summary
• 10:5110:51, 17 March 2024 diff hist +3,485‎ N 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...."
• 10:5110:51, 17 March 2024 diff hist +2‎ The Boer War ‎No edit summary
• 10:5010:50, 17 March 2024 diff hist +931‎ N 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..."
• 10:4910:49, 17 March 2024 diff hist +3‎ The Boer War ‎No edit summary
• 10:4810:48, 17 March 2024 diff hist +2,978‎ N 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..."
• 10:4810:48, 17 March 2024 diff hist −1‎ The Boer War ‎No edit summary
• 09:1609:16, 17 March 2024 diff hist +110‎ Capable Women ‎No edit summary
• 09:0909:09, 17 March 2024 diff hist 0‎ N File:Wilsonmafeking.jpeg ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 17 March 2024 diff hist +16,100‎ N 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..."
• 09:0609:06, 17 March 2024 diff hist +131‎ The Boer War ‎No edit summary
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• 09:0509:05, 17 March 2024 diff hist −22‎ Expanding the military nursing workforce ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 17 March 2024 diff hist +6‎ Society Butterflies ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0109:01, 17 March 2024 diff hist +13,812‎ N 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..."
• 08:4008:40, 17 March 2024 diff hist 0‎ N File:Wynberg.jpeg ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 17 March 2024 diff hist 0‎ N File:Possibly-Christina-Anne-Jessica-ne-Cavendish-Bentinck-Lady-Sykes.jpg ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 17 March 2024 diff hist +7‎ The Boer War ‎No edit summary
• 08:2708:27, 17 March 2024 diff hist +2,998‎ N 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..." current

14 March 2024

• 22:2822:28, 14 March 2024 diff hist +323‎ N 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"
• 22:2522:25, 14 March 2024 diff hist +218‎ N 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" current

13 March 2024

• 22:0622:06, 13 March 2024 diff hist +89‎ The Boer War ‎ →‎Nursing in the Boer War
• 13:2113:21, 13 March 2024 diff hist +8‎ Motivation ‎No edit summary current
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