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Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948 (2006) Piggott, Juliet. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Pen and Sword, 1990) Piggott, Juliet. Famous Regiments: Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Leo Cooper Ltd, 1975) Summers, Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914 (2000) Taylor, Eric.
The most important periods of operation for these units were during World War I and World War II. Although VADs were intimately bound up in the war effort, they were not military nurses , as they were not under the control of the military, unlike the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps , the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing ...
Dame Katharine Henrietta Jones DBE, RRC & Bar (3 February 1888 – 29 December 1967) was Matron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) for most of the Second World War, serving from 23 July 1940 to 1944.
By the beginning of the First World War in 1914, military nursing still had only a small role for women in Britain; 10,500 nurses enrolled in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) and the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. These services dated to 1902 and 1918, and enjoyed royal sponsorship.
However, these roles were not without risk, and there were, according to the Imperial War Museum, 717 casualties during World War II. [6] ATS women working on a Churchill tank at a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, 10 October 1942. Two projectionists of the Auxiliary Territorial Service operate a projector at the field stores, Aldershot, in 1941.
Little is known of McNicholas' early nursing career, but on 5 October 1942 she was granted a commission as a Sister (No. 246129) in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) Reserve. [6] McNicholas joined an estimated 70,000 men and women from Ireland, who served in the British forces over the course of the Second World ...
U.S. Army Nurse Corps, a special branch of the Army Medical Department (United States) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, a specialist corps of the Army Medical Services of the British Army; Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps; U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, a staff corps of the United States Navy; U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps
Wilkinson saw service as a nurse during both World Wars. The 22-year-old Lumsden began her nursing training in 1911 at the Royal Infirmary in Sunderland. She had just finished her training when the First World War began in August 1914, and she promptly enlisted as a reserve in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS).