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→Military Nurses in India
The ''Nursing Journal of India'' (Nurs J India) began publishing in 1912. It would be expected there would be mention of many individual nurses in the Journals. 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. The Royal College of Nursing Archives in Edinburgh (refer [[Nurse#Other Libraries and Archives|section]] below) believes they have early issues of this Journal (or they can obtain them) but they are not in the computerised catalogue at present.
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:
:* [http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME047-1911/page168-volume47-26thaugust1911.pdf "Nursing in Calcutta Hospitals"] (1911)
:* [http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME048-1912/page437-volume48-01stjune1912.pdf "re report of Calcutta Hospitals"] (1912)
The work of Australian Army nurses in India in the [[First World War]]:
*[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. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/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 15 September 2018.</ref> to provide “the best most accurate info on Australians nursing in India”.
*[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]].
*[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.
*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.
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 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====
Records relating to nursing at the [[British Library]] include:
*The Indian Nursing Service-Registers of Candidates [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_4-3_3&cid=1-1-1#1-1-1 '''IOR/L/MIL/9/430-432'''] (1887-1920). The nurses were recruited in England.
Other records are listed on 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====
*The National Archives Research Guide [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-army-nurses/ British Army nurses] contains no specific 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(Search the [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/catalog/?limitToCountry=1 Card Catalogue])
**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)
**UK, The Midwives Roll, 1904-1959 (source: Wellcome Library, London)
:[https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/archives/family-history Family History/Digital publications] Royal College of Nursing website includes some details of the Ancestry databases.
==Singapore==
==FIBIS resources==
*The FIBIS database contains the following records:
**[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.
*"Indian Army Prisoners of War in the Second World War" by Hedley Sutton ''FIBIS Journal, No 12 (Autumn 2004)''. For details of how to access this article online, see [[FIBIS Journals]]. An alphabetical listing by surname of nearly 900 Indian Army personnel who became prisoners of war between 1941 and 1945 is available at the British Library. Most were held by the Japanese, with some held by the Italians.The vast majority are Europeans, but a handful of Indians are recorded; plus a few Indian Medical Service nursing sisters
*"Medals to a Nurse" by Allan Stanistreet ''FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)'' pages 39-40. Miss W McGregor was a member of the '''Temporary Nursing Service, India''' during the [[First World War]]. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
==External links==
*The kidnapping of Mollie Ellis from [[Kohat]] cantonment by Afridi tribesmen from the Khyber Pass region 14 April 1923 and the rescue expedition which included Mrs Lilian Starr matron at the [[Peshawar]] Mission Hospital. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111103080544/http://michaelelambert.com/main/pdf/The_Kidnapping_of_Mollie_Ellis_by_Afridi_Tribesmem-Michael_E_Lambert%20_C_.pdf "The Kidnapping of Mollie Ellis by Afridi Tribesmen" by Michael E Lambert], now archived. [http://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/?p=3641 Article from Lookandlearn.com], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/4946412546/ Photographs] from the Illustrated London News (26 May 1923 pages 894-895 ) Flickr.com. An account of her rescue mission ''Tales of Tirah and Lesser Tibet'' by Lilian A Starr, published 1924 is available to read online on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100747 Archive.org].
*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>
*[http://greatwarnurses.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/miss-loch-and-indian-nursing-service.html Miss Loch and the Indian Nursing Service] greatwarnurses.blogspot.co.uk. (See also Historical books online section below for memoir)
*[https://doi.org/10.1177/2377960820920128 "Historical Trajectory of Men in Nursing in India"] by Sathish Kumar Jayapal and Judie Arulappan, first published May 13, 2020. Male nurses were permitted from 1939 in Madras Presidency.
*WW2 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/26/a1307026.shtml Wartime Memories of a Nurse] by Kitty Calcutt. Includes a posting to 3 B.M.N.S.U. British Mobile Neuro-Surgical Unit. Number 3 at [[Comilla|Camilla]], which treated soldiers from the Burma frontline. bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar
*''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]
*''Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918'' ''Volume III'' : ''Special Problems and Services'' by Colonel A G Butler published 1943. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211415/page/n627 Pages 567-571] cover Australian nurses in India. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*"Australian Nurses in India 1916-1919". Scroll to page 124, ''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The Story of Anzacs in Asia'' edited by Keast Burke 1927. NZsappers.org.nz has two digital files/series, the first contains some digital pages which are of very poor quality. The second series of files from nzsappers.org.nz: [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-1-70.pdf Pages 1-70], [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-71-132.pdf pages 71-132]; [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-133-206.pdf pages 133-206]. Also includes nominal rolls at the back of the book. Includes a list of the main WW1 '''hospitals''' in India. nzsappers.org.nz.
*[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
:[https://archive.org/details/sistersinarmsbri0000tyre_y2h3/mode/2up ''Sisters in Arms : British Army Nurses Tell Their Story''] by Nicola Tyrer 2008. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Second World War. Includes
:*[https://archive.org/details/sistersinarmsbri0000tyre_y2h3/page/254/mode/2up India and Burma] page 255
:[https://archive.org/details/joyceswarsecondw0000parr ''Joyce's War : the Second World War Journal of a Queen Alexandra Nurse]'' by Joyce Ffoulkes Parry, edited by Rhiannon Evans 2015. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. She served on a troop ship, a hospital ship and in land hospitals in Alexandria and Calcutta 1940-1944.
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