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Military Nurses in India
The Indian Nursing Service for the [[British Army]] in India was founded in 1888, when Miss Catharine Loch and five sisters went to [[Rawalpindi]] and Miss Oxley and three sisters went to [[Bangalore]]. Nurses were recruited in England. ''Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses, 1854-1914'' by Anne Summers (1988), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cuIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA114 page 114] (Limited View Google Books), gives brief details of the conditions. The service became known as Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India in 1903, and in 1926 was amalgamated with 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. This [http://www.qaranc.co.uk/queen-alexandras-imperial-military-nursing-service-for-india.php QARANC article] (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps) details the history of the Queen Alexandra nurses in India. This [http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/18.html link] (Scarletfinders) is a Record Of Work in France Of Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service For India during the First World War and this [http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/150.html link] on the same website contains descriptions of the various uniforms worn.
 
The work of Australian Army nurses in India in the [[First World War]] is decribed in [http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j36/nurses.asp Reading between unwritten lines: Australian Army nurses in India, 1916-19] by Ruth Rae. Australian War Memorial website. Describes the 34th Welsh General Hospital (34 WGH) at [[Deolali]]
===Records at the British Library about Military Nursing===
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