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* [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] has Military Nurses 1856-1940. These are five sets of records transcribed largely from those held at National Archives. These include 783 names from Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. (Free to search but pay for full view)
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*The [http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsor1999/csjb01.html Clewer Sisters] were Sisters from the Anglican Community of St John the Baptist from Clewer (near Windsor in England) who came to Calcutta in 1881. They were involved, at various times, with nursing at the Calcutta General Hospital, Medical College Hospital, and the Eden Hospital (a maternity hospital) and also with nurse training through the Calcutta Hospital Nurses Institution, which was based at the Lady Canning Home. Scroll to the end of this [http://anglicanhistory.org/england/ttcarter/life/05.html link] for brief details of their work in India.
*''All Saints Sisters of the Poor'' indicates this order was in India from 1878. <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XNS_KBCil2AC&pg=PA15 page 15 footnote] ''All Saints Sisters of the Poor: an Anglican Sisterhood in the Nineteenth Century'' by Susan Mumm, (published 2001) Google Books</ref> All Saints Sisters were at the J.J. Hospital, Bombay from 1880 and at St George’s Hospital Bombay from 1885 until 1902 <ref> [''Western medicine and public health in colonial Bombay, 1845-1895'' by Mridula Ramanna 2002]</ref>
*The Wantage Sisters ([http://www.csmv.co.uk/WantageOverseas.htm Community of St Mary the Virgin],Wantage, Oxfordshire), an Anglican Order, were in [[Bombay]] and [[Poona]] from 1874.<ref>''A History of Christianity (Volume VI) the Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia 1800-1914''</ref> The abbreviation Sr C S M V was used.
The work of Australian Army nurses in India in the [[First World War]] is decribed in
*[https://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2014/10/28/nursing-british-raj/ "Nursing for the British Raj"] by Ashleigh Wadman 28 October 2014 Australian War Memorial website. Suggested further reading includes ''Guns and Brooches: Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War'' by Jan Bassett 1997 which is stated elsewhere<ref> kjharris. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/238575-online-articles-aans-australian-nurses-in-india/&do=findComment&comment=2424827 Online articles: AANS (Australian nurses) in India] ''Great War Forum'' 19 July 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.</ref> to provide “the best most accurate info on Australians nursing in India”.*[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]].
*[http://emhs.org.au/person/brooks/constance_jessie Constance Jessie Brooks] was one of over 500 members of the AANS [Australian Army Nursing Service] who served in India during the First World War although it was not recognised officially as a theatre of war. She was posted to Rawalpindi, the Victoria War Hospital in Bombay and subsequently on His Majesty’s Hospital Ship ‘Ellora’, then finally the Gerard Freeman Thomas [War] Hospital in Bombay. In 1919 she married in Bombay, one of the 20 Australian nurses who married in India.
===First World War hospital for wounded Indian soldiers===
[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME054-1915/page185-volume54-6thmarch1915.pdf The Lady Hardinge Hospital at Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, [England<nowiki>]</nowiki> for wounded Indian soldiers] The sisters at the hospital , who performed mainly supervisory duties, all spoke Hindustani.<ref> [http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME054-1915/page185-volume54-6thmarch1915.pdf ''The British Journal of Nursing'' March 6, 1915 Volume 54, page 187].</ref> The newly constructed hospital, consisting of a series of huts, opened 20 January 1915<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/orderofhospitalo00finciala#page/36/mode/2up page 36] ''The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and its Grand priory of England'' by H.W. Fincham 1916 Archive.org</ref>, although it appears there had been other hospital facilities from about September 1914<ref>World War 1 document by Hampshire Record Office, page 18 [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:WxKWaSc_PCYJ:www.hants.gov.uk/rh/archives/ww1.pdf+Brockenhurst+Hospital+Indian&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgFWkDLf9DL-5bTbc_6u74NDEx7jkSAhviCa12kF-Xr-stem1EvhtjsnlhyTO-dJWiG6lioQ-fWQHXf3I2lp7U1et0s8fwWfxYysAYst3niU3iFKH4K7Suzv_3luBmsgeIl5ZGe&sig=AHIEtbSAksQdcR43IUI6-utQ9DIJeqqyxw html version], [http://www.hants.gov.uk/rh/archives/ww1.pdf pdf]</ref>, possibly in hotels.<ref> [http://www.newforestmilitaryarchive.org.uk/Site/Brockenhurst/Brockenhurst.html Brockenhurst War Memorial]</ref> The Lady Hardinge Hospital for Wounded Indian Soldiers was used from the outbreak of war until the end of 1915, when the Indian Army Corps which it supported, was transferred to Egypt. The Indian hospital was then transferred to Brighton and the Brockenhurst site became No 1 New Zealand General Hospital. For more about Brighton, see [[Western Front]].
[http://www.newforestheritage.org/brockenhurst-a-first-world-war-hospital-village-1914/ Brockenhurst a First World War Hospital village 1914]. newforestheritage.org.<br>
[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME054-1915/page278-volume54-3rdapril1915.pdf 5]
[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME055-1915/page337-volume55-23rdoctober1915.pdf 6]
===Second World War===
See Historical books online, refer below.
During [[Second World War|WW2]] a large group of VADs left London who ended up working near the Burma Front.<ref>catblues44. [http://boards.ancestry.com.au/topics.Military.wwii.nurses/191/mb.ashx V.A.D. nurses London] ''Rootsweb Message Board: Military: World War II: Nurses'' 19 May 2015. Mentions the book '' Sister Sahibs: The VADs With the 14th Army 1944-46'' by Marian Robertston. Retrieved 16 December 2016.</ref>
===Records at the British Library about Military Nursing===
===Records at the National Archives===
*The National Archives Research Guide [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/rdleaflet.asp?sLeafletID=169 British Army: Nurses and Nursing Services (Military Records Information 55)] has very limited reference to India
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/nursing.asp Nursing Service Records, First World War]allows search and download of information. The records relate to "over 15,000 First World War service records for nurses who served in the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve) and the Territorial Force Nursing Service". Some records relate to a period before the First World War but none post date 1939.
==Online records==
*[http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] contains a database "Military Nurses 1856-1994" (located in Armed forces & conflict/Regimental & service records). These are five sets of records transcribed from those held at National Archives, and other sources, as explained in a findmypast [http://www.findmypast.com.au/articles/world-records/full-list-of-united-kingdom-records/armed-forces-and-conflict/military-nurses-1856-1994 article]. These include 783 names from Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. (Free to search but pay for full view)
* Ancestry, a pay website, contains the following databases, located in Schools, Directories & Church Histories
**UK & Ireland, Nursing Registers, 1898-1968 (source: Royal College of Nursing, London)
**Scotland, Nursing Applications, 1921-1945 (source: Royal College of Nursing, London)
**UK & Ireland, Queen's Nursing Institute Roll of Nurses, 1891-1931 (source: Wellcome Library, London)
==Singapore==
*The [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115;class=alt-db Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library] has the [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FRCMS%2077 Indian Nursing Collection of Diana Hartley] the first full-time Secretary of the Trained Nurses Association of India (T.N.A.I.), 1935-1944 and her [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3022NNN Indian Photograph Collection], the link giving details of her career, together with more Indian Nursing Photographs in the [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3022OOO Dora Chadwick Collection]
*Mrs. Eve Ross, speaking about her missionary nursing experiences (as Miss Eve Croydon) in United Provinces, 1941-1946 in an [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/e-ross.html / interview] from the Oral History Collection of the [[University of Cambridge - Centre of South Asian Studies]], available to listen to, or read as a transcript. The [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/Handlist_R.htm#ROSS archive/papers/ Archive papers collection] also has 271 very interesting, personal, letters home during that period.
==FIBIS resources==
**[http://archive.org/stream/britishjournalnu55londuoft#page/116/mode/2up Award of the Kaiser-i Hind medal to Miss AJ Weighall] page 116 ''The British Journal of Nursing'' Volume 55 July 1915-December 1915
**''The British Journal of Nursing'' Volume 61 July 1918-December 1918
***[http://archive.org/stream/britishjournalof61londuoft#page/114/mode/2up/ page 114] mentions hospitals in Bombay , and includes a photograph of Sisters at the J J Hospital.***[http://archive.org/stream/britishjournalof61londuoft#page/142/mode/2up/ pages 142-143] include the award of the Kaiser-i Hind medal to Miss Charlotte Richmond Mill, Matron St Georges’ Hospital Bombay, with photograph.***[http://archive.org/stream/britishjournalof61londuoft#page/152/mode/1up page 152] "Gallant Service in Mesopotamia".
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-3401905 "The Indian Army Nursing Service"] by A. Arkle ''The American Journal of Nursing'' Vol. 2, No. 9, June, 1902, pages 652-655 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-3402194 "The Work of the Indian Army Nursing Service"] by Miss Watt ''The American Journal of Nursing'' Volume 3, No 2 November 1902, pages 93-96 Archive.org
*''A Memoir, by Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India'' (published 1905) [http://www.archive.org/details/catharinegracel01bradgoog Archive.org Full View]
*[https://archive.org/details/IanHay1951ArmyNursing ''One Hundred Years of Army Nursing : The Story of the British Army Nursing Service from the time of Florence Nightingale to the present day''] by John Hay Beith 1953 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/IanHay1951ArmyNursing#page/n253/mode/2up "Part Three: The Second World War: Far East: Burma"] page 246
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