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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. 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). 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. 
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. 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. 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. 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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