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QA Corp DayInformation about the QA Corp Day held each march for members of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps: Each year, in March, members of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps celebrate QARANC Corp Day. Past members of the QA's join current QA's in an interdenominal church service in the hospital or unit chapel followed by a buffet lunch or a traditional curry lunch at the Officers mess, Sergeants Mess and Junior Ranks Mess Halls. Small units will hold an all ranks function. The QA Prayer is usually said during Corps Day. 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. Members of the QA Association are invited to local military units to celebrate QA Corp Day and the branches of the QA Association around the world will organise their own QA Corps Day services. Serving members of the QA's will normally wear No 2 Dress Uniform with medals. History of the QA Corp DayThe history of the QA Corp Day dates back to the 27 March 1948 to commemorate when King George, the husband of the first President of the QAs, signed a Royal Warrant. The President of the QA's is now known as the Colonel In Chief Of The QARANC. Though the QAIMNS later became the QARANC (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps) on the 1 February 1949 QA Corp Day is still celebrated on the day the Royal Warrant from the War Office was signed changing the Army Nursing Services to The Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service on the 27 March 1902. The Golden Jubilee of the QAs was on the 27 March 1952 but celebrations were delayed until June as a march of respect to King George VI who had died on the 6 February 1952 (cited in the book Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Famous Regts. S)  by Juliet Piggott).
Queen Alexandra's Day was also respectfully postponed in 1953 because of the death of Queen Mary, the Colonel in Chief of the QAs, on the 24 March. Queen Mary's funeral was on the 29 March and 19 QAs marched in her funeral procession. Queen Mary was also the Colonel in Chief of the Queen's Royal Regiment, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada and the President of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service and representatives of these regiments and services also took part in her funeral procession. QA Day 1953 was later celebrated on the 13 April (cited in the book Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Famous Regts. S) by Juliet Piggott).
QARANC.co.uk are still researching the history of the QA Corp Day. If you would like to contribute or can help then please contact us. 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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