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Photographs of QARANC Army Nurses and HospitalsIf you would like to share your photographs or pictures with serving or former QARANC members and people with an interest in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps then please use the e-mail address or mailing address on the contact page. Please do give us a brief description of the photo so that we can describe the picture to readers of the website. We would especially welcome any historical pictures of QA's and the places they have served such as Netley or the Royal Herbert Hospital. We would encourage you to scan the original QARANC related picture and e-mail us a copy; we cannot be responsible for any pictures or photographs lost in the post. Digital photographs are most welcome. The super photograph below was kindly provided by Angela Burgoyne. She recognises the QA officer as Major Lilias M Tibbs who saw service in Singapore and went on to become a Matron. The picture is entitled 'About to begin the tour of the Hospital June 9 1956'. Unfortunately Angela does not know which military hospital the photo was taken at nor who the other dignitaries were though she thinks some may be Naval or Red Cross staff? Angela recalls Major Tibbs as being a wonderfully modest lady and would, despite having witness dreadful things, only modestly say of her lifetimes work I'm just an old has-been. If you can help to identify the other personnel or the location please contact us. 
Qaranc.co.uk were delighted to hear from retired Major Daphne Brewer-Dudfield who informed us that it is Lady Louis Mountbatten on the far left. She also thinks that the photo with Lady Louis Mountbatten was not taken in Singapore on the date shown because she arrived in November 1955 and Lady Mountbatten had just visited Singapore prior to her posting. Major Daphne Brewer-Dudfield also notes that as the people in the photo are not wearing tropical uniforms, but winter uniforms, it is not likely to be in a hot place. Larger photos can be seen at: QAIMNS Nurses Photo Example of Mentioned in Despatches Letter From The Secretary of State for War From World War One Example of Nurse Reference Mesopotamia World War One Photographs (Modern day Iraq and Iran). Oh What a Lovely War The photos below were taken by photographer Adrian Bowd during the Lewes Theatre Club June 2009 production of the First World War stage musical Oh What a Lovely War which was devised by Charles Chilton, Gerry Raffles and Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. It was directed by Pat Shrimpton. 
It is tradition in productions of Oh What a Lovely War for the actresses playing the nurses to wear pierrot costumes and the director and dressmaking member made five QAIMNS tippets. The costumes were then hired out to another Group who are performing the play at Hever Castle 
Qaranc.co.uk would like to thank Adrian Bowd and Pat Shrimpton for kind permission to display the photos of Oh What a Lovely War. The photographs below are of a double sided brooch that belonged to Catherine Sarah Jones who served in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) during the First World War. She was christened Catherine Sarah Jones and born in 1888 in Harlow, Essex, England and then took her mother's maiden name and changed her name to Katherine Sarah Beale Jones and an inscription on the back of the brooch says B.K.S.JONES B.R.C.S (British Red Cross Society ) and O.S.J.J (Order of Saint John of Jerusalem). There is an inscription on one side of the brooch in letters which look to be Turkish - they are not Arabic but there are letters like capital Omega,P,V,O,T,Y,Epsilon,a six backwards and an M with a small Omega on the top. Her nephew is trying to find out some information about the brooch and his aunt. Click on the pictures to see larger photos. Her sister recalls that she trained as a nurse somewhere in the midlands beginning with 'L' but then paid for herself to go to Dublin to the Rotunda hospital for her midwifery training. The family have her 1914 - 1915 WW1 star medal and think she must have enlisted into the QAIMNS quite early on during the Great War. Her nephew describes her as a fairly eccentric but very knowledgeable old aunt who died in 1970 aged 82. If you can help identify the brooch and give a history of it then please contact me. 
JK Militaria have kindly identified the brooch as being a Serbian Order of Takovo - Commander's class which was no longer awarded after World War One and was a fairly rare award. The Serbian Order of Takovo - Commander's class was issued for various services to Serbia (or citizens of) prior to and during the Balkan Wars and WW1. For more information visit www.jkmilitaria.com Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute Badge 
The photograph above was thought to have been of a World War I nurse. It is a postcard photo and we were asked to help identify the medal and ribbon she is wearing. The nurse is thought to be Miss Jepson who was nicknamed Jeppie. Staff Nurse Milly Jepson served during the Great War. The postcard photo was taken by a studio in Leicester called Fisher & Potter Ltd. Click the photo to see a larger image. We received the help of Sue at Scarlet Finders who is a specialist at tracing former nurses and military nurses. Here's what Sue was able to say - within an impressive 5 minutes of my e-mail! The badge is that of Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute - if you see one close up, it's the letters QVJI intertwined, and came in different metals depending on the grade of the nurse. The QV Jubilee Institute nurses were the original district nurses, and later on, the 1930s I think, the name got shortened to 'Queen's Nurse' which stuck until the 1970s. Even I did my district training in the days of 'Queen's nurses'. So they were trained nurses who worked in the community, normally under the auspices of the local council, rather than hospitals. An internet search for Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute throws up lots of hits. My immediate impression was that the photo was post war - probably early 1920s, particularly in view of the hairstyle, and that is born out by the attached extract from the British Journal of Nursing, dated 12 November 1921, page 307 which gives Millie Jepson, as a QVJI nurse being transferred to Clacton [right hand column]. As she has a file at The National Archives, it should give more details of her time during the war, and hopefully details of where she trained. 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. 
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By sending photos to QARANC.co.uk you give permission for us to publish them on the website. Please ensure that you have the permission of the people in each photograph or picture before sending them to QARANC.co.uk and that if appropriate you have the permission of your Commanding Officer or Matron. Please note that any photographs and images that appear on the www.qaranc.co.uk website will be watermarked with qaranc.co.uk to prevent editors, journalists and other websites lifting the photo or image and claiming it is theirs and to prevent hotlinking. This in no way implies that the photo is the copyright of this site but is done to avoid bandwidth theft and over usage. With permission from the owner we always add an acknowledgement to the photo owner and link to their website if they have one. Qaranc.co.uk are most grateful to image owners for their kind permission to display their historically important images. If you would like to use any pictures from the qaranc.co.uk site then please contact us using the link on the right of this page and we will seek permission from the owner. Below is a copy of a Christmas card sent from British Military Hospital Kluang Malaya with the tri service cap badges: 
The Real Tenko The latest book about British Army nurses and nursing describes a dark chapter in the history of the QAs. The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese  by Mark Felton is an account of the fall of the Far East to Japan. It comprehensively covers war atrocities performed by the Japanese troops to women stationed in places such as Singapore and Hong Kong. This included Sisters of the QAs who were stationed in hospitals such as
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View more 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 *********************************************** Help Needed A reader of Qaranc.co.uk is researching the exhumation of Heinrich Himmler in Luneberg, Germany circa 1945-46. He thinks that two nurses from the QAIMNS attended the exhumation due to the poor state of health of Walter Schellenberg. He would like to learn if any of the nurses kept a diary of the events leading up to the exhumation or sent any personal letters home to friends or family that may have provided an insight into Walter Schellenberg and the exhumation. Please contact Qaranc.co.uk if you have any information. Qaranc.co.uk have recently learnt about two former Military Hospitals that we would like to write about. These are the British Military Hospital at Wuppertal in Germany and BMH Benghazi. If you know any information, would like to share your memories or have photographs that we can use on the site then please contact Qaranc.co.uk A reader is writing an article about the demise of the Military Hospital for the RAMC Magazine and seeks some help. There was, in Kuala Lumpur, a hospital called BMH Kinrara. He would like to know when it opened and closed, what happened to the buildings and the staff. He thinks that Kinrara closed as Terendak opened and that the staff were transferred across to 34 Company RAMC? He would also like any information about the Military Maternity Hospital, Penang. If you can help then please contact Qaranc.co.uk There is a lovely photo of three QA Midwives from the 1960s about half way down on the Royal Herbert Hospital page. If you can help with information about the Maternity Unit in Woolwich or identify the QA Officers then please contact Qaranc.co.uk The BMH Dhekelia has new photos which includes a stunning picture of the demolition of the original building and some staff photos. The contributor would like some help with the date it was demolished and would love to hear from anyone who worked with her relative. |
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