Nurse Histories - both on hold until December, apologies...
Our current nurse-history - Evelyn Betham - who trained at Oldchurch Hospital, is under current development and the one following, that of a male nurse - Tony Sisson - is now firmly on the drawing board. We still have several nurse histories on our list - most of serious interest, but gathering sufficient history has proven excessively difficult in all but a few cases.
Our mail....
We continue to receive some very interesting contributions to our website. Not unusually it is the pictorial submissions which attract most attention - in this case it seems that nursing uniforms are the order of the day. This missive is from correspondent Helen Coan, busy proofing her ancestry - which in this case comes as a bonus for schoolsofnursing:-
"I'm not sure if your group can help or not. My great aunt Ellen DISNEY trained at Nottingham, Bagthorpe and qualified 1911/12. I have a photo of her on her own and another with a group plus a photo of the same gentleman in a ward with some of the nurses. Ellen seems to have a Maltese shape cross on her right breast in the individual photo. I'm not sure if these photos relate to Bagthorpe or not. My aunt was with Queen Alexandra's nurses in Bagdad 1919 - 1920 and I have photos of her in that uniform. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross 2nd Class in 1920 for her work out in Iraq but sadly I do not have that medal or any others except her War & Victory medals. She was also at Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight in 1916 and I have a group photo of her there. Her service records have survived so I know which hospitals she worked at before 1916 and wondered if you could recognise where the photos were from the uniform as I believe each hospital had its own particular cap and collar. I will send copies of all the photos if you are interested but there is no point if in my spending time to do that if you are not interested in that sort of thing. Regards Helen Coan (nee Disney)".
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We are certainly interested and are willing to give this a try. It looks to be well worth it
- but we have to admit at the outset that I don't think that we have ever
tried to identify a particular nurse by uniform before.....
Member Photograph Galleries.
Accumulating, but very slowly in the last quarter. The 'National'
galleries now contain 2543 nursing/hospital badge photographs encompassing
all areas of the UK; 342 photographs (buildings/people/ephemera); and 59
photographs of nurse uniforms, both civilian and military. 2944 photographs*. Have a quick
glimpse of the two latest badges.:-
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From the Irish collections of Eric Wilkinson |
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Here, just a couple of samples from the
Ulster/Irish collection of Eric Wilkinson. There are some absolutely superb
badges displayed both in our Irish 'National' galleries and the Eric
Wilkinson
display gallery.
The galleries are becoming a
small on-line museum and are adding to our knowledge of nursing history quite
nicely, thanks to our contributors. It is available to anyone who cares to
register as a member - a very simple process. All is free...
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