| |
| |
|
 |
 |
|||||||
|
» Site Map » Home Page Historical Info » Family History/Trace Nurses » History » QAIMNS for India » QAIMNS First World War » War Graves Memorials Nurses 
» Book of Remembrance » Example of Mentioned in Despatches Letter » War Love Stories » QA World War Two Nursing » Africa Second World War » War Diaries Nursing Sisters » Belsen Concentration Camp » Voluntary Aid Detachment » National Service » Korean War and the QARANC » Gulf War » Royal Red Cross Medal » Colonels In Chief » Director Army Nursing Services (DANS) » Colonel Commandant » Matrons In Chief (QAIMNS) I would love Qaranc.co.uk to grow and would be grateful for a few seconds of your time to achieve this. Please help StumbleUpon this page: Follow Qaranc.co.uk on Twitter:  Like Qaranc.co.uk on Facebook: If you have found this page useful please consider clicking below to tweet this page with your followers: Tweet Or share via Moreshare to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious and Stumbleupon whilst earning rewards at the same time when you use Moreshare to shorten your links: 
» March » Motto » QA Memorial National Memorial Arboretum » Memorial Window » Army Recruitment Posters » Museum » QA Association » Army Standard » QA and AMS Prayer » Books About Army Former Army Hospitals UK » BMH Cowglen Glasgow » CMH Aldershot » Colchester Military Hospital » DKMH Catterick » Duke of Connaught Unit Northern Ireland » Ghosts » Hospital Ghosts » Haslar » QA Centre » QAMH Millbank » QEMH Woolwich » Musgrave Park Hospital Belfast » Netley » Royal Chelsea Hospital » Royal Herbert » Tidworth Military Hospital » Military Hospital Wheatley France » Ambulance Trains » Hospital Barges » Hospital Ships Germany » BMH Berlin » BMH Hanover » BMH Hostert » BMH Iserlohn » BMH Munster » BMH Rinteln » BMH Wuppertal Cyprus » TPMH RAF Akrotiri » BMH Dhekelia » BMH Nicosia Egypt » BMH Alexandria China » BMH Shanghai Hong Kong » BMH Bowen Road Hong Kong » BMH Mount Kellett Overseas Old British Military Hospitals » BMH Gibraltar » BMH Malta » BMH Nairobi » BMH Nepal » BMH Singapore » Belize Hospital 
|
Director Army Nursing Services (DANS) and Matron-in-Chief (Army)Information about the role of Director Army Nursing Services (DANS) and Matron-in-Chief (Army) within the QARANC with the Officers who have held this position and dates of service: The most senior member of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps is the DANS whose full title is Director Army Nursing Services (DANS) and Matron-in-Chief (Army). He or she is the highest serving Officer of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps in overall charge of the QARANC. Upon appointment the DANS becomes the ex-officio President of the QARANC Association. The current Director Army Nursing Services and Matron-in-Chief (Army) is Colonel Wendy J Spencer RRC QHN L/QARANC whose tenure finishes in 2011. Her replacement will be Colonel Peter Childerley. 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
www.findextrawork.co.uk
where we share the information for free to help others with information and resources about earning more money.
Visit Findextrawork for more information.
Previous Directors Army Nursing Services and Matron-in-Chief (Army) of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps? to 2008 Colonel John DF Quinn OStJ and QHN (Officer of the Order of St John and Queen's Honorary Nurse). Col Quinn retired in June 2008. 2002 to 2005 Colonel Kathy George CBE (Commander of the British Empire). 1999 to 2002 Colonel Bridget McEvilly ? to 1999 Brigadier Jane Mary Arigho, CBE, Royal Red Cross Medal 1981-84 Brigadier Vera Rooke. Brigadier Vera Rooke died on Sunday 13 September. 1973 to ? Brigadier Helen Cattanach RRC QHNS (Queen's Honorary Nursing Sister) More information and photo below. 1968 to 1973 Brigadier Barbara Gordon CB (Companion of the Order of the Bath) RRC, QHNS (Queen's Honorary Nursing Sister) 1964 to 1968 Brigadier Dame Margot Turner DBE (Dame British Empire), RRC, QHNS (Queen's Honorary Nursing Sister). 1960 to 1964 Brigadier Dame Barbara Cozens DBE, RRC, QHNS 1956 to 1960 Dame Monica Johnson Golding DBE (Dame of the British Empire) RRC, QHNS 1952 to 1956 Brigadier Dame Helen Shiels Gillespie DBE, RRC, QHNS (Queen's Honorary Nursing Sister). The first Director Army Nursing Services (DANS) and Matron-in-Chief (Army) for the QARANC was Dame Louisa J. Wilkinson DBE, RRC on the 1 February 1949, though I note that Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Famous Regts. S) 
by Juliet Piggott cites this as being Brigadier Dame Anne Thomson DBE, RRC, KHNS (King's Honorary Nursing Sister) from the 1 February 1949 to 1952.
In the early days of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) nurses were under the directorship of the Director General Army Medical Services. Dame Monica Johnson Dame Monica Johnson studied midwifery at the Louise Margaret Maternity Hospital next to the CMH Aldershot and joined the Queen Alexandra’s Military Families Nursing Service (QAMFNS) in 1925. The QAMFNS was amalgamated into the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) in 1926. Dame Monica Johnson saw her new service when the QAIMNS became a Corps to become the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC) in 1949. Six years later Dame Monica Johnson became the Director Army Nursing Services (DANS) and Matron-in-Chief (Army) and after her retirement she continued her association with the QAs when she was appointed Colonel Commandant of the QARANC in 1961. Brigadier Helen S Cattanach 
Brigadier Helen S Cattanach was the Director Army Nursing Services (DANS) and Matron-in-Chief (Army) of the QARANC between 1973 and ?. Upon retirement she was appointed the Colonel Commandant QARANC on the 30 June 1978.
Helen S Cattanach was born in Knockando in Morayshire and attended Elgin Academy. She trained as a State Registered Nurse at Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen. During World War Two she became a member of the Civil Nursing Reserve and joined the QAIMNS (R) in June 1945. One year later she became a regular Nursing Sister of the QAIMNS. Her first 12 years of military service saw her nurse in India, Singapore, Java, Germany, Egypt and Gibraltar with postings throughout the United Kingdom Military Hospitals. In 1958 Sister Helen Cattanach became a Staff Officer at the Army Medical Directorate at the War Office. In 1961 Helen Cattanach became the first QA officer to work at the recruiting branch of the War Office. Helen Cattanach was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal in 1963. Sister Helen Cattanach then moved back to nursing where she became a ward sister in Hong Kong. Promotion soon followed and she became the Matron at BMH Munster in 1968 and then Matron at the Cambridge Military Hospital in 1969. Colonel Helen Cattanach was then appointed the first Director of Studies QARANC. In December 1972 Col Helen Cattanach was promoted to Brigadier and appointed the Matron-in-Chief and Director of Army Nursing Services. She is noted for setting up a Regimental Headquarters for the QARANC. In 1973 she was appointed Queen’s Honorary Nursing Sister (QHNS) and in January 1976 she was awarded the CB (Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath). Brigadier Cattanach lived in Woking in her retirement and was appointed to the position of Colonel Commandant on the 30 June 1978. She was the Chairman of the Millbank Branch of the QARANC Association. Brigadier Helen Cattanach CB RRC QHNS (Queen's Honorary Nursing Sister) died on the 4 May 1994, aged 73 years. The obituary of Brigadier Helen S Cattanach CB RRC was published in The Gazette of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Association Vol. 10 No. 11 and was written by Major (Retd) D J Machray. If you like this page and would like to easily share Qaranc.co.uk with your friends and family please use the social networking buttons below: Tweet
A QARANC wall plaque and shield is available to buy through Amazon. The QA shield is hand made and ready to hang on the wall. . Buy Now.  View British Army Nursing Books - with free delivery available. 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. For the official Army QARANC webpage please go to www.army.mod.uk/home.aspx For the QARANC Association website please go to www.army.mod.uk/army-medical-services/qaranc/9884.aspx *********************************************** The information request section has moved to the Army Nursing page. |
Present Day » Become An Army Nurse » QARANC Junior Ranks » QARANC Officer Ranks » Abbreviations » Nicknames for QARANC Ministry of Defence Hospital Units » MDHU Derriford » MDHU Frimley Park » MDHU Northallerton » MDHU Peterborough » MDHU Portsmouth » RCDM Birmingham Field Hospitals » Camp Bastion Field Hospital and Medical Treatment Facility MTF Helmand Territory Southern Afghanistan Territorial Army » TA Field Hospitals and Field Ambulances Photos » Photographs QA Uniform » Why QA's Wear Grey » QARANC Beret » QARANC Lapel Pin Badge 
» Cap Badge » QA Corps Belt » QARANC Officer's Cloak » QA Officer Medal QARANC Events » Armed Forces Day » Army Reunions » Corps Day » Military Events » Remembrance » AMS Carol Service » QARANC Association Pilgrimage to Singapore and Malaysia 2009 » Doctors and Nurses at War » War and Medicine Exhibition » QA Uniform Exhibition Nothe Fort Weymouth Famous QA's » Dame Margot Turner » Dame Maud McCarthy » Military Medal Awards To QAs » Sean Beech Nursing Events International Nurses Day QARANC.co.uk Info » Search » Site Map » Contact » Military Websites Help Needed: QARANC.co.uk would like you to share your memories of serving in the QA's, your fondest memories of military hospitals you may have served in or perhaps share any photographs and have them appear on the QARANC website. Any thoughts, articles and photos can be e-mailed or sent in the post using our contact details. www.qaranc.co.uk are seeking help with some answers to questions sent by readers. These can be found on the Army Nursing page. » Find QA's » Jokes » Merchandise » Military Teddy Bears » Pin Badges » Wall Plaques » Fridge Magnet 
The Abandoned Soldier Recipe Book Reviews Shopping Coupons | ||||||
 |
 |
| © Site contents copyright QARANC.co.uk 2006 - 2012 All rights reserved.
Privacy/Disclaimer Policy |
