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QARANC Grey Lady Ghosts Many hospitals have a ghost and these are commonly grey lady ghosts. These ghostly apparitions appear most often at night and witnesses describe briefly seeing a ghostly image flit past. Is it a trick of the light or a phantom of the past? Who knows, but some army hospitals have had their own grey lady ghosts. I don't know if these are urban legends within the military community, perhaps because of the grey uniform of the QARANC nurse. None of the Qaranc.co.uk team has seen any ghosts in our careers, which has involved many a night shift, caring for the dying and trips to the mortuary. Mind you we have seen many a nurses' image reflected in the windows of the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital. The QEMH was covered in glass, even the corridors were made of glass. In the dim lit night it is all too easy for the mind to play tricks. Though it doesn't stop us believing in ghosts... Help Needed: Qaranc.co.uk would like to add a page about the QA lanyard but need some help. Can anyone please help with a photo of the lanyard on the uniform and a photo of just the lanyard? It would also be helpful if anyone can give some tips on how to site and fit the lanyard. Please use the e-mail address on the contact page. Thank you! Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story by Nicola Tyrer is an account of the QAs during the two World Wars. It includes first hand accounts of the Queen Alexandra nurses who were in the dressing stations, casualty clearing stations and field hospitals of Dunkirk, D Day, the fall of Singapore and many more locations where the QAIMNS served. Buy Now. Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story is also available as a talking book read by the actress Barbara Flynn and Sian Thomas. Buy Now. View More British Army Nursing Books - with free delivery available. CMH Aldershot Grey Lady The Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot had a grey lady ghost on the upper floor. The Grey Lady ghost was said to haunt the upper floor between wards 10 and 14. Many nurses and car assistants would take the stairs and walk between wards 1 and 7 to avoid this section of corridor at night! The Grey Lady would be seen flittingly and then disappear. Sittings were always at night and were often accompanied by the smell of lavender. The exact name of the grey lady ghost at CMH Aldershot is not known. However it is thought that the grey lady ghost was a member of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. The QA nurse, thought to be a Sister, had given a patient an accidental drug overdose. The soldier patient died as a result of her error. The nurse was so overcome with guilt that she threw herself off the upper floor walkway. In the early days of the Cambridge Military Hospital this walkway corridor was open planned. Book a ghost hunting experience. The Grey Lady was often seen beside ill patients who would later die within a few hours of her visit. A bit like the ITV programme Afterlife in 2006 where a dead Sister would come and guide a dead patient to the next life, which included the main character Robert Bridge - was the Grey Lady performing her nursing duties in death? Did she nurse the dying and help them move on to the next life....Perhaps the writer of this episode, A Name Written In Water, had heard of the CMH Grey Lady and was inspired to write this episode. The sightings of the grey lady ghost always seemed to coincide with a very ill or dying patient. It is thought that the grey lady came out to help comfort the patient and give help to the nursing staff. Whenever she was about the corridor would be cold - no matter how high the heating was turned up. Sightings Of The Grey Lady Ghost These descriptions of the Grey Lady ghost have been described to the authors of the QARANC website: "I had an experience on ward 14 when I was a student nurse working nights with a ward sister who was a civilian and brigadiers wife. We had a patient who was severely ill following a road traffic accident who required hourly observations and we checked her at midnight, all was well. Then at 1 am we couldn’t find her observation chart. We searched the ward for the next three hours and ended up writing her obs on a separate piece of paper convinced that here was no way we could have lost them. 4am was always known as the ‘ghosting hour’ and low and behold at 4 am obs time we found her chart swinging at the end of her bed accompanied by the smell of lavender. At the tender age of 20 I was freaked out and wouldn’t go into the ward again without being accompanied by the sister. The strange thing is the poor patient died later that day with an illness unrelated to her RTA which hadn’t been diagnosed until post mortem. It feels strange to think about it again after all these years. I used to hate working nights and having to go between wards 10 and 14, so I used to walk downstairs go along the bottom corridor and then back upstairs! It was so cold along that top corridor that I never tempted fate by walking through there at night!" *********************** My sighting of the Grey Lady was when I was working on Ward 2, Male Medical, and my friend was on Ward 10, upstairs. Before this all happened the chapel opposite the Louise Margaret had caught fire and so church services were being held in the upstairs corridor of the hospital, I think between ward 11 (the school of Nursing) and ward 10. For those who remember it was wide enough to still be used as a corridor and have all the chairs set out to one side. Anyway I was on nights and for my break I was going up to see my friend on Ward 10. I went up the stairs and just as I went through the door into the section where the chapel chairs were, I saw a figure moving in between the rows of chairs. She had a veil on similar but not quite the same as the Nursing Officers, not as starched, but I thought it was because there was only minimal lighting on. I didn't say anything or walk forward, but when she walked around the end of the chairs I couldn't see her feet. Her dress stopped mid calf and there was nothing below that level. As I started walking forward she just disappeared. The doors at either end of that section of corridor did not move. I turned round and went back down the stairs walked along the main corridor to the next flight of stairs went up and told my friend what I had seen. One of the senior nurses there, who knew the history of the building said that the original floor had been 12 - 18 inches lower, which would explain the missing feet. Another thing that happened when I was on Ward 2 was that a young soldier, during the night asked the ward sister for a fresh jug of water. She said she would get one shortly, she was tied up with a terminally ill patient. A while later she returned to the young man with a jug but he already had one. When asked he said the other sister got it for him. There was no other sister on that night, and his description of her uniform was very different to what the sister was wearing that night. The terminally ill patient died that night. Netley Hospital Nurse Ghost Royal Victoria Military Hospital Netley had two ghosts. The first would appear as a blue nurse. This was thought to be ghost of a nurse at Netley Hospital who fell in love with a patient. However he was seeing another woman and the nurse murdered him and then killed herself. The nurse's spirit haunted the hospital until it was demolished in 1966. As with most hospitals and military hospitals Netley Military Hospital had a Grey Lady ghost. This was said to appear a few hours before a patient was about to die. Neither ghost has been seen since the buildings were demolished. Read more about Royal Victoria Military Hospital Netley including the history, building information, famous patients and doctors, the World Wars, the first Military Asylum Mental Hospital and what is there now. Ghost of a Nursing Sister The Royal Herbert Military Hospital in Woolwich dated back to 1900 and closed in 1977 when the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital opened. It served the local population in addition to military patients and even German Luftwaffe pilots and navigators downed during the Blitz. It had a ghost of a Nursing Sister and patients and nurses would hear ghostly footsteps, more of which can be read about in the Royal Herbert Hospital Shooters Hill Woolwich page. Gordon Highlander Ghost During the First World War there was a Barracks building in King Street, Aberdeen, Scotland. The Gordon Highlanders Infantry were stationed there before being posted to France. One of the officers, Captain Beaton, hanged himself at the barracks. No-one knows why he hung himself but since his death there has been ghostly going ons. The building became a housing area and then a tram and now a bus depot. People who lived or worked there have reported seeing a khaki uniformed ghost, places going cold, taping on the windows and lights being switched on and off. QEMH Ghosts Although the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital was one of the more modern military hospitals the QEMH would appear to be the most haunted army hospital. These are recorded on the hospital ghosts page. Colchester Military Hospital Ghost The old Colchester Military Hospital had a Victorian nurse ghost. There is more information about her and the sightings of her hauntings and appearances on the Colchester Military Hospital page. If you would like to contribute a ghost or paranormal story to this page then feel free to contact me with information. A British Army Nurse In the Korean War A newly published book about the QARANC is A British Army Nurse In the Korean War by Elizabeth Jilly McNair. QA Sister McNair saw active service in Korea and Japan and this book is based on her letters home and photographs she took during her 18 months spent nursing at the British Commonwealth General Hospital in Kure, Japan and the British Commonwealth Zone Medical Unit in Seoul, Korea. Buy Now! If you would like to contribute to this page, suggest changes or inclusions to this website or would like to send me a photograph then please e-mail me. 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