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*The British Library has The Nursing Journal of India from December 1926 (with a few scattered editions prior to this) to February 1939 and Cambridge University Library has an incomplete holding from 1935 to 1989. It would be expected there would be mention of many individual nurses in the Journals.
*Military Nurses in India.<br>
The Indian Nursing Service was in founded 1888. This became known as Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India in 1903, and in 1926 was amalgamated into Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service. This [http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/8.html link] gives more details. Select British Military Nurses and scroll down to Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India. <br>
Records available in the British Library include<br>
The Indian Nursing Service-Registers of Candidates IOR/L/MIL/9/430-432 1887-1920 <br>
Collection 262 Indian Nursing Service IOR/L/MIL/7/11316-11616 1886-1940 which includes items 262/1-262/270 and 262A /1-262A/188 with many individual names mentioned. <br> Collection 262/103 IOR/L/MIL/7/11421 1913 states Candidates for Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India must either be of British parentage or naturalised British subjects.
*[http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/24216 Missionary women doctors in nineteenth century Delhi] by Kaushik Das Gupta includes the following information: <br>St Stephens Hospital, Delhi started a training School for nurses under Alice Wilkinson — the first trained British nurse who joined the hospital in 1908. Wilkinson became the hospital's nursing superintendent and is credited with raising the standard of nursing not only in St Stephen's but in the rest of India as well. She founded the Trained Nurses’ Association of India and worked as its secretary until 1948. This [http://www.superstoresindia.com/organisations.htm link] is about St Stephen’s Hospital Delhi.
