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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. Wartime Nurse: One Hundred Years from the Crimea to Korea 1854-1954 (2001)
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.
Brigadier Dame Cecilie Monica Golding, DBE (née Johnson; 6 August 1902 – 6 June 1997) was a British Army nurse and nursing administrator who rose to Colonel Commandant, Matron-in-Chief and Director of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC). [1]
In March 1902, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was established and was named after Queen Alexandra, who became its President. [17] In 1949, the QAIMNS became a corps in the British Army and was renamed as the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. Since 1950 the organisation has trained nurses, and in 1992 ...
Before 1993, all women in the Royal Navy were members of the WRNS except nurses, who joined (and still join) Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, and medical and dental officers, who were commissioned directly into the Royal Navy, held RN ranks, and wore WRNS uniform with gold RN insignia.
Of the 74,000 VAD members in 1914, two-thirds were women and girls. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In August 1914, just after the outbreak of war in Europe, the British Red Cross and the Order of St John proposed to form a Joint War Organisation with the intention of working with common aims, reducing duplication of effort and providing St John personnel with the ...
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In 1926, Gillespie joined Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and served in India from 1927 to 1932, and again from 1934 to 1939. During the Second World War she served in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. After the war she worked in the War Office and the British Army on the Rhine. [1] She was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1947.