User contributions for Keiron

8 March 2025

• 12:1812:18, 8 March 2025 diff hist −41‎ BARNFATHER: Unsettling News ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1712:17, 8 March 2025 diff hist +7,956‎ N BARNFATHER: Unsettling News ‎ 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..."
• 11:4411:44, 8 March 2025 diff hist +1,069‎ N BARNFATHER, Winifred Emma ‎ 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..."

7 February 2025

• 15:5915:59, 7 February 2025 diff hist +119‎ LUARD, Kate Evelyn ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5715:57, 7 February 2025 diff hist +109‎ LUARD, Kate Evelyn ‎No edit summary
• 15:5515:55, 7 February 2025 diff hist 0‎ N File:KateLuard.jpeg ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5415:54, 7 February 2025 diff hist +558‎ N LUARD, Kate Evelyn ‎ 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..."
• 15:4915:49, 7 February 2025 diff hist +56‎ BARCLAY, Margaret ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 7 February 2025 diff hist +5,329‎ N BARCLAY, Margaret: Christ Church Cathedral, Port Stanley ‎ 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..." current
• 12:5612:56, 7 February 2025 diff hist 0‎ N File:Falklands4.png ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 7 February 2025 diff hist +49‎ BARCLAY, Margaret ‎No edit summary
• 12:5312:53, 7 February 2025 diff hist +10,849‎ N BARCLAY, Margaret: Memories of a distant war ‎ 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..." current
• 12:4612:46, 7 February 2025 diff hist 0‎ N File:Falklands3.png ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4412:44, 7 February 2025 diff hist +50‎ BARCLAY, Margaret ‎No edit summary
• 12:4112:41, 7 February 2025 diff hist +4‎ BARCLAY, Margaret ‎No edit summary
• 12:4112:41, 7 February 2025 diff hist +17‎ BARCLAY, Margaret ‎No edit summary
• 12:4012:40, 7 February 2025 diff hist +242‎ BARCLAY, Margaret: 1976 to the Summer of 1982 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2712:27, 7 February 2025 diff hist 0‎ N File:Falklands1.png ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 7 February 2025 diff hist +9,474‎ N BARCLAY, Margaret: 1976 to the Summer of 1982 ‎ 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..."
• 12:1812:18, 7 February 2025 diff hist +1,483‎ N BARCLAY, Margaret ‎ 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..."
• 12:1712:17, 7 February 2025 diff hist +71‎ N Category:PostWW2 ‎ Created page with "This category lists any of the nurses in the wiki who served after WW2." current
• 12:1712:17, 7 February 2025 diff hist +31‎ British Army Nurses ‎ →‎Categories current
• 12:1312:13, 7 February 2025 diff hist 0‎ N File:Margaret barclay.png ‎No edit summary current

4 February 2025

• 21:1121:11, 4 February 2025 diff hist +19,759‎ N EJW: July 1900 ‎ 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..."
• 17:1617:16, 4 February 2025 diff hist −4‎ EJW: June 1900 ‎No edit summary current
• 17:1517:15, 4 February 2025 diff hist +26‎ EJW: June 1900 ‎No edit summary
• 16:2716:27, 4 February 2025 diff hist +23,517‎ N EJW: June 1900 ‎ 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..."
• 11:0511:05, 4 February 2025 diff hist +139‎ In Memoriam Table ‎No edit summary
• 11:0011:00, 4 February 2025 diff hist +109‎ In Memoriam Table ‎No edit summary
• 10:5710:57, 4 February 2025 diff hist +124‎ In Memoriam Table ‎No edit summary
• 10:5410:54, 4 February 2025 diff hist +201‎ In Memoriam Table ‎No edit summary

3 February 2025

• 16:3316:33, 3 February 2025 diff hist +44‎ British Army Nurses ‎No edit summary

2 February 2025

• 22:5822:58, 2 February 2025 diff hist +2,657‎ N Florence 2020 History of Nursing Conference ‎ 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..." current
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• 22:5322:53, 2 February 2025 diff hist 0‎ N File:Salone-dei-Cinquecento low-768x512.jpg ‎No edit summary current
• 22:2522:25, 2 February 2025 diff hist +55‎ McHARDY, Alice ‎No edit summary current
• 22:2322:23, 2 February 2025 diff hist +40,126‎ N Alice McHardy: Chapter 6 ‎ 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..."
• 22:1822:18, 2 February 2025 diff hist +60‎ McHARDY, Alice ‎No edit summary
• 22:1622:16, 2 February 2025 diff hist +19‎ Alice McHardy: Early Years ‎No edit summary current
• 22:1522:15, 2 February 2025 diff hist +8,201‎ N Alice McHardy: Early Years ‎ 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..."
• 22:0222:02, 2 February 2025 diff hist +645‎ N McHARDY, Alice ‎ 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..."
• 22:0122:01, 2 February 2025 diff hist 0‎ N File:SisterMcHardy.jpg ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 2 February 2025 diff hist −5‎ EJW: May 1900 ‎No edit summary current

1 February 2025

• 23:0623:06, 1 February 2025 diff hist −1‎ Reports of nurses serving in WW1 ‎No edit summary current
• 19:2919:29, 1 February 2025 diff hist +5,526‎ N LLOYD, Ethel Beatrice ‎ 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..." current
• 19:2219:22, 1 February 2025 diff hist 0‎ N File:B war 5 Nurses at bungalow.jpg ‎No edit summary current

15 January 2025

• 12:3612:36, 15 January 2025 diff hist −3‎ Royal Red Cross Table ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3512:35, 15 January 2025 diff hist −136,963‎ Royal Red Cross Table ‎ Replaced content with "==Context== As part of a project for the Chief Nursing Officer (Army) I helped to tabulate all those Army nurses who have been awarded the Royal Red Cross (RRC) or the Associate Royal Red Cross (ARRC). On the other side of the world Capt. (Retd) Steve Pearson CSC, Royal Australian Navy, was busy collating recipients from the UK and Commonwealth counties and across all services (and civilians involved in the care of military patients). Steve is a long serving (57 y..." Tag: Replaced

5 November 2024

• 10:3310:33, 5 November 2024 diff hist +148‎ N Category:Between the wars ‎ Created page with "This category lists those nurses in the wiki who served between WW1 and WW2. Many of these nurses will have served in one or both of the World Wars." current