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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 W J Spencer RRC QHN L/QARANC. 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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View More British Army Nursing Books - with free delivery available. 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) 2002 to 2005 Colonel Kathy George CBE (Commander of the British Empire). ? to 1999 Brigadier Jane Mary Arigho, CBE, Royal Red Cross Medal 1973 to ? Brigadier Helen Cattanach RRC QHNS (Queen's Honorary Nursing Sister) 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. 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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