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Historical Nursing Journals is an online searchable database of PDF images showing British journal pages from the [https://www.rcn.org.uk/library Royal College of Nursing Library], then select CollectionsArchives/Search CollectionsFamily history/Historical Nursing Journals. nursing journals or direct link [httphttps://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/cgi-bin/browse_archive.pl?_ga=2.236775300.422764041.1501057981-1800685731.1501057981 Search] ''The Nursing Record'' / ''The British Journal of Nursing'' 1888-1956 image database. There are many mentions of India in these Journals. Examples include:

Female nursing was introduced in army hospitals in [[Madras]] in the late 1860’s, well before Calcutta, see [http://books.google.com/books?id=egysl1oHBI0C&pg=PA73 page <ref> Page 73] (Limited View Google Books) of ''Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj'' by Jharna Gourlay (2003). (page no longer available online)</ref>

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. (Brief details of the conditions.<ref>''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(page no longer available online)</ref>). 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. <br>The Nursing Service for Indian Troops Hospitals was formed in 1926 (Later renamed the Indian Military Nursing Service). This was a permanent nursing service. In the prior years from 1916 the Indian Government had employed many nurses on six months contract.<ref>royalredcross [Norman]. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/274001-qamnsi-nurses/?do=findComment&comment=2788124 QAMNSI Nurses] ''Great War Forum'' 31 July 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.</ref> *[http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/8.html linkThe Military Nursing Services] gives more details(scarletfinders.co. uk) 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 Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India] 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 of Work in France Of 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.

*[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20160323003112/https://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, archived webpage. Describes the 34th Welsh General Hospital (34 WGH) at [[Deolali]].

*The A List of Australian Army nurses who married overseas during WW1 includes those who married in India.<ref> frev (Heather Ford) [https://cataloguewww.nlagreatwarforum.gov.auorg/blogs/entry/Record2836-aans-nurses-who-married-overseas-during-ww1/78807 NLA catalogue descriptionAANS NURSES WHO MARRIED OVERSEAS DURING WW1] for ''Great War Forum blog'' 15 October 2023, retrieved 18 October 2023.</ref>*"Australian Nurses in India 1916-1919 " commences page 124 ''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia : the story of Anzacs in Asia'' edited by Keast Burke 1927 states it includes “the histories of… the Australian nurses in India , and is available online below... "*Also see Historical books online below.

[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 when Balmer Lawns and Forest Park Hotels had been commandeered and fitted out as a medical facility, with temporary structures in hotelsthe grounds providing additional accommodation.<ref> [http://www.newforestmilitaryarchive.org.uk/Site/Brockenhurst/BrockenhurstLater Morant Hall became Meerut Indian General Hospital to provide additional accomodation.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. At the same time Morant Hall became Morant War Hospital. For more about Brighton, see [[Western Front]].

[httphttps://www.newforestheritagenfknowledge.org/contributions/brockenhurst-a-first-world-war-hospital-village-1914/ #map=10/-1.57/50.81/0/24:0:0.6|39:1:1|40:1:1 Brockenhurst a First World War Hospital village 1914]by Gareth Owen. newforestheritagenfknowledge.org.<br>[http://www.lymington.org/This article contains further links and there are a number of photographs/lymingtonphoto353.html Photograph of the huts] lymington.org. <br>Names of some of the nurses from BJN 21 November 1914-23 October 1915:[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME053-1914/page402-volume53-21stnovember1914.pdf 1]

===Records about Military Nursing===*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=72PNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT137 "Researching the Indian Army Nursing Service/QAMSI"] (digital page 137?) ''Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians'' by Mary Ingham. Google Books. Advises that the Indian Army List has some details from 1891 and that QAMSI also appear in ''Thacker’s Indian Medical Directory''.**See '''[[Indian Army List online]]'''**''Thacker's Indian Medical Directory''. For availability , see [[Doctor#Lists of medical officers| Doctor - Lists of medical officers - Other lists]]. *:'''Note''', the 1931 ''Thacker's'' is known to contain entries for nurses, but it is not clear whether all editions do so. For online editions, see [[Directories online#Thacker's Indian Directory|Directories online - Thacker's Indian Directory]].====Records at the British Library about Military Nursing====

Other records are listed on this the British Library webpage , now archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20180818085807/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/occupations/indianmedicalservice/indianmedical.html Indian Medical Service]

====Records at the National Archives====

*[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(Search the [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/catalog/?limitToCountry=1 Card Catalogue])

**[httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=462&s_id=0 Nursing Personnel 1944] photograph**[httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=419&s_id=0 List of Qualified Midwives, European and East Indian from the Government Lying-in-Hospital, Madras, 1865]*[https://www.facebook.com/fibis.org/photos#!/photo.php?fbid=10151232769742323&set=o.24704988880&type=3&theater "Image of a Qualification Cetificate Certificate to practice as a midwife granted by the Government Maternity Hospital Madras] " to Jane Bullock, dated 4th September 1909(?). There is a statement on the certificate advising “This institution is recognised as a training School by the Central Midwives’ Board, London”. Previously, but seemingly not currently, available on FIBIS on Facebook.

*Mrs Adela Cottle (born Adela Collins) (1861-1940) [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6395 Victorian Wars Forum thread] dated 1 January 2012. She was active in the St John Ambulance Brigade and the Red Cross in Calcutta, for over forty years, particularly during World War 1 and the post war period. Her awards included [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire CBE], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisar-i-Hind Kaisar-i-Hind] silver medal in 1915 <ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianbiographic00raoc#page/22/mode/2up page 23 of the Appendix, ''The Indian Biographical Dictionary'' 1915]. Edited by C. Hayavadana Rao Archive.org. There was also an obituary in ''The Times'' [London] dated 22 February 1940.</ref>