Nurse Histories - Moving...
Our next history - Anthony (Tony) Sisson - special and progressing. Estimated to be still some months away from completion, but sometimes things move quite quickly. Fingers crossed but no promises right now.
And now - another two new articles from Sarah Rogers, the first below (collections26) is about the Nurse Lilian Teasdale, who once worked at the Kent Nursing Institute in Tunbridge Wells. It is superbly illustrated with memorabilia - photographs - medals, nursing badges, and especially poems and drawings from wounded soldiers she nursed during WWI.
The second is about Nurse
Elsie Winifred Ellis, (nee Osmond) who trained at the Poplar
Accident Hospital from 1935-1939. She joined the QAIMNS, being attached to
the 5th General Hospital in1939 in France almost immediately. She also
caused no little consternation among her superiors at the time by becoming
married in 1941 whilst on active-service! A seriously forbidden exercise for
any nurse wishing to remain in the armed forces at that time.... Whatever
the turmoil resulted, she was eventually a medal recipient of the 1939 - 45
Star; The Africa Star; and the 1939 War Medal. But at the time the nursing
powers in command had first say and that was no married nurses...
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Ms Barbara Tyler -
St Thomas Hospital - Scrapbook Part 2.
With the second part of the scrapbook collection of
Ms Barbara
Tyler - "Assistant Matron-in-Charge at St. Thomas' Hydestile (Godalming,
Surrey), when the hospital was moved out of London during the Blitz of
1941". We owe our thanks to - Gina O - who kindly gave us permission
to use her photographs.
And also to Keith Haikes, an American nurse
who is the current owner of the book and who has provided further
photographs.
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The scrapbook photographs are presented exactly as we received them - the icons above are linked to our own pages in a pseudo-reproduction - leaving a little room for us to perhaps eventually fill in the detail that the nurse creating the original, Ms Tyler, did not need since the scrapbook - and the memories it contains, was for her own use. As with any scrapbook, some of the photographs may well be meaningful only to Ms Tyler, but some are of recognizable, sometimes public figures. All are part of Barbara Tyler's story and are of historic importance as the scrapbook of a past Assistant Matron at St Thomas's Hospital. Especially this one! A glimpse of history. A treasure... PART 2 is here.
Member Photograph Galleries.
Still accumulating, albeit now more slowly. The 'National'
galleries now contain 2961 nursing/hospital badge photographs encompassing
all areas of the UK; 370 photographs (buildings/people/ephemera); and
(still) 83
photographs of nurse uniforms, both civilian and military. Will we achieve 4000 by the end of 2013? Perhaps not, but we will have made
solid progress and perhaps achieve the largest collection in the UK by then
if not already....
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We are already at 3414 - 4000 might just
be possible by the end of 2013. We are well on the way and just maybe, we
will see another magic number by the end of the year, thanks to our many contributors.
We can now claim to have a mini photographic museum here at schoolsofnursing. Sincere, heartfelt, thanks...
But the photographs are not our be all/end all. Our online articles are
gaining too, to say nothing of our nursing histories and news pages. There is
a very large amount of research involved. Someone's time. Someone's money.
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seeds of success.
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