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British Military Hospital Egypt BMH AlexandriaThe history of BMH Alexandria Egypt including events in the Second World War such as the battle of El Alamein During the Second World War Allied and British casualties who fought to stem the advance of Germany and the troops under the command of Rommel were evacuated to Egypt for further treatment aboard hospital ships from places like Tobruk. The Matron of No 1 British General Hospital was Miss Miller of the QAIMNS (Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service). During WWII Egypt was at the height of the war and female nurses were on an alert to leave at a moments notice. Most kept a packed bag to make evacuation swift. Miss Miller had a more practical approach - she kept a large hatpin in her head veil to fight off any attacking Germans! (cited in Quiet Heroines: Nurses of the Second World War  by Brenda McBryde).
Many QAs were left in Egypt to care for the wounded soldiers and they were the few females in the area. FANYs (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service), WAAFs (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) and WRNS (Women’s Royal Naval Service) personal had already been evacuated in mid 1942. The more seriously wounded servicemen were evacuated to Palestine and South Africa. 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.
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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. Battle of El Alamein A service of intercession was held in the Cairo Garrison church and as the remained QAs made their way back to the hospital to await a new influx of casualties so the servicemen went to the Battle of El Alamein. This notorious battle lasted for a dozen days and the Eighth Army Desert Rats under the command of Lt General Montgomery were able to fight off the advancing German Army, though at a cost of over 13,500 British and Commonwealth lives. The many wounded were given emergency treatment at the dressing stations and then evacuated to hospitals like the 63rd British General Hospital (BGH) at Helmieh where the Matron was Miss Monica Johnson QAIMNS who later became the Director of Army Nursing Services and then the Colonel Commandant of the QARANC (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps). Quiet Heroines: Nurses of the Second World War tells the story of how two patients on different wards were brought together by the Matron because they were friends from the same regiment and whilst one had lost his hands and the other his eyesight together they could help each other physically and keep their morale high.
Even during Worlds War Two love blossomed and on our love stories page there are two love stories of QAs who fell in love and married servicemen in Egypt during the Great War and the Second World War. Jane Pugh 
Jane Pugh was born in 1915 and served with the QAIMNS from 1940 to 1945. During these World War Two years Jane was posted to Oxford in 1940 and then embarked from Greenock in Scotland on the Queen Mary to Palestine in June of the same year. Sister Jane Pugh served in Greece and Crete before being evacuated back to Egypt where she spent 2 years in the British General Hospital in Alexandria. She was then posted to Tripoli and then Italy. She married a Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) doctor called Alan Grant in April 1944 at Naples.
Jane Pugh died in 2005 and is survived by her son David Grant. He would love to hear from anyone who knew his mother or has information about her, perhaps from searching their family history. David has written more about his mother and her service life with more photos at http://www.grantonline.com/pugh-family-genealogy/pugh-jane-1915/jane-pugh.htm which also has David's contact details. 
Details of a letter from the Matron in Athens to the Matron-in-Chief about the evacuation from Athens can be read on the QA World War Two Nursing page. The book The Roses of No Man's Land  by Lyn MacDonald has an account written by Sister Cathy Mellor of her time at No. 15 General Hospital, Alexandria during the First World War. She wrote about first caring for patients in the dysentery ward. They lie there in agony, night and day. Oh, the pity of it all. Great strong men, young, looking as old as men of sixty years.
Sister Adeline Palmer of the QAIMNS(R) worked at the Citadel Hospital in Cairo and described the treatment of dysentery with Emetine injections and enemas of sodium bicarbonate, silver nitrate and tannin. Another account in the book The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn MacDonald comes from VAD nurse Kit Dodsworth of No. 19 General Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt about how she heard of the Armistice being signed after a busy day caring for victims of an influenza outbreak that cost many lives.
If you would like to expand this page with more details about this former army hospital and include a photograph or if you are a former or serving member of the QAIMNS we would love your help. If you would like to contribute any info, photographs or share your memories of BMH Alexandria then please contact me. 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.
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