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Colchester Military HospitalInformation and history about the Colchester Military Hospital Colchester Military Hospital was one of several army hospitals in England, UK. It is now closed and has been demolished. It closed when the QEMH Woolwich opened in 1977. Colchester Military Hospital was demolished some time later and local army medical needs were met, and still are, by the new Medical Reception Station (MRS) Colchester. History of Colchester HospitalColchester barracks area in Essex, England has always been a busy garrison and when the new barracks were built in 1856 a 20 hut hospital complex was built. This was replaced with a fine looking red brick hospital in 1896. The photograph of Colchester Military Hospital below is of that era. 
Colchester Military Hospital was able to treat about 221 patients in side rooms and eight traditional wards. 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. Sister Roach 
The nephew of 32323 Gunner Gerald Albert Morris of the 10th Reinforcements,
12th Field Artillery Brigade, 46th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces is trying to trace any possible living relatives of a Sister Roach (QAIMNS) who nursed his late
uncle during the First World War some time between 1917 and 1918 at the military hospital in Colchester UK. Below are photographs taken by Gunner Morris of the
Australian Army of Nursing Sister Roach, the Corporal of the Ward and groups of fellow Australian Soldiers.
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Hospital Ward World War One: 
The photo below is marked The Corporal of the Ward 
The image below is marked At The Old Oak Tree. Can anyone help with any information about the significance of the tree? 
A soldiers club: 
Gunner Gerald Albert Morris can be seen in the middle of this group of World War One military patients: 
Below are a group of three Tommies 
More building work was undertaken over many decades as the health care needs of soldiers changed and as medical and nursing advances were made. This included a pathology laboratory in 1934 and a reception annexe in 1951. Two operating theatres were added in 1963. This picture of Colchester Military Hospital would have been of this time: 
The book Sub Cruce Candida: A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Army Nursing  has photos of QAs working in the wards of Colchester Military Hospital.
After the major wars of World War I and II and the Korean War the Colchester Military Hospital accepted civilian patients in 1959. The local civvy hospital at the time was Essex County Hospital. The working capacity of the hospital had been reduced by this time and was down to about 90 beds spread over 7 wards. One third were occupied by civilian patients and by the early 1970s more civilian patients were admitted to the army hospital. By the time of its official closure in early 1978 Colchester Military Hospital were caring for 114 patients in 8 wards and employed 150 army personal and 100 civilian staff. The date I have been given as the closure of Colchester Military Hospital was the 17 December 1977 though some sources have stated 1978. There was a great deal of local support to keep Colchester Military Hospital but it sadly closed and the building was demolished. Ghost of Colchester HospitalThe Colchester Military Hospital was said to be haunted. There were several sightings of a ghost nurse in a Victorian nursing uniform walking down a corridor. She would suddenly vanish into thin air. During World War II a patient reported a nurse in the same type of old fashioned nursing uniform changing his bandages. It was thought that the ghost was back helping her patients. There are more QA and army hauntings on the Army Ghosts page. I would love to expand this page with more details about this former army hospital and include more photographs. If you are a former or serving member of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps we would love your help. If you would like to contribute any info, photographs or share your memories of Colchester Military Hospital then please contact me. Photographs of Colchester Military HospitalHere are some more photographs of Colchester Military Hospital that have been kindly sent to the QARANC website team: 
The pictures below were taken during differnet stages of the demolition of BMH Colchester. Parts of the land are now a housing estate whilst others are within Merville Barracks, home to 16 Air Assault Brigade and The Parachute Regiment. 
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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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. The photos and pictures on this page have been kindly sent to us for inclusion on this page. If you would like to contribute photographs then please contact us. Findextrawork 
Since leaving the QA's we have done an assortment of self employed work and jobs, some which only take an hour a week, others have been full time. We
have written about these at our other website Findextrawork at
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where we share the information for free to help others with information and resources about earning more money.
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