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Tidworth Military HospitalHistory of the Tidworth Military Hospital with shared memories from former staff and patients of BMH Tidworth Tidworth Military Hospital was built in 1907. It had between 200 to 300 beds. Tidworth Military Hospital was conveniently located by the army training grounds of Salisbury Plains in South East Wiltshire. Famous people born in the maternity wing of Tidworth Military Hospital include the former Life Guards Captain and now singer James Blunt. His father, Colonel Charles Blount, was an officer in the Army Air Corps. James Blunt's birth name was James Hillier Blount. Tidworth Military Hospital closed on the 31 March 1977 even though the Maternity Unit had recently been refurbished (cited in the book Sub Cruce Candida: A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Army Nursing  ).
Parts of the hospital remained open as MRS Tidworth (Medical Reception Station). 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. Memories of Tidworth Military Hospital Below are memories of Tidworth Military Hospital. If you would like to send your recollections of this former army hospital for other Qaranc.co.uk readers to enjoy then please contact me. My stay at Tidworth Military Hospital was in the family ward, and the adult ladies who were patients got a bottle of stout every night provided their health permitted. Of course I didn't since I was not old enough. I do remember the Matron, although not her name, and the round of the ward she did every morning. I had been given auromycin during my last few days at BMH Tidworth because I was not progressing as fast as I should. It had the unfortunate affect of making me sick about 10 minutes after I had taken it. The Matron came round the ward, and I shall never forget her words: "I hear you have been having morning sickness!" There were a lot of titters at that, but one look silenced everyone. It all seems so long ago now. British Military Hospital Tidworth occupied the Delhi barrack block, and had some wonderful nurses - I know this personally because being an army "brat" I was a patient there in March 1955 for 2 weeks suffering from pneumonia. I was treated very well, and can still remember how kind the nurses were. I was 15 and was very ill and scared, but they certainly helped to put my fears to rest. I do not remember any names, but one of the nurses had the most glorious red hair, underneath her cap of course! In the summer of 1959 my late Mother was a patient there for a hysterectomy, and was treated with kindness and compassion. The barracks in Tidworth are all behind barbed and razor wire so I do not know if the hospital still exists in any form at all. Diane Sadly none of the QARANC.co.uk team served at Tidworth Military Hospital and would love to expand this page with more details about this former army hospital and include a photograph. If you are a former or serving member of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps we would love your help. If you would like to contribute any info, photographs or share your memories of Tidworth Military Hospital then please contact me. 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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