WW1 nurses

[tjkap]

Hello,

Does the CWGC maintain graves of nurses killed in WW1?  Or is there a register of them?

Tim

[Girl Guide]

A snippet from the National Archives website

Nursing service records (1902-1922)

Search and download service records (WO 399) for nurses who served in the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAINMS), the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve) QAIMNS(R) and the Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS) on our website (£).

Or this website might be of interest:-

http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/2.html

Don't be put off by the name!  It is about nurses.

[ScouseBoy]

Hello,

Does the CWGC maintain graves of nurses killed in WW1?  Or is there a register of them?

Tim

     Check on the www.cwgc.org   web site,   but I feel sure that the answer will be yes.

[tjkap]

Thank you.  Scarletfinders was a most interesting read.

[newburychap]

Hello,

Does the CWGC maintain graves of nurses killed in WW1?  Or is there a register of them?

Tim

     Check on the www.cwgc.org   web site,   but I feel sure that the answer will be yes.

The answer is yes and no. Nurses are commemorated by the CWGC as long as they were working for one of a specific set of organisations. So British nurses working for the French Red Cross or the Serbian Relief Fund or any number of other organisations are not commemorated.

The national memorial to them in York Minster does not have such limitations.

[Martin Briscoe]

Hello,

Does the CWGC maintain graves of nurses killed in WW1?  Or is there a register of them?

Tim

     Check on the www.cwgc.org   web site,   but I feel sure that the answer will be yes.

The answer is yes and no. Nurses are commemorated by the CWGC as long as they were working for one of a specific set of organisations. So British nurses working for the French Red Cross or the Serbian Relief Fund or any number of other organisations are not commemorated.

The national memorial to them in York Minster does not have such limitations.

I just looked and there names on the CWGC register for members of "Scottish Women's Hospital" which is presumably Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Services - I notice Louisa Jordon is listed.  Sure there are more who died but perhaps from disease rather than enemy action, several websites about them.

I am just about to add the names on the York Minster QAIMNS memorial to the IWM WMR, can someone tell me where it is inside the Minster in case I cannot find the location.

By the way, there have been a lot of threads on the Great War Forum about nurses and other women in WWI.

Don't forget the VAD's, I think records on them can be patchy.

[majm]

And, there were nurses from the overseas Dominions.  All were British Subjects.  Around 3000 from Australia, and I expect NZ and Canada and South Africa .... 

JM

[Skoosh]

Elsie Inglis the remarkable Edinburgh woman who founded the Scottish Womens Hospitals, their services were snubbed by the usual Whitehall blimps so she offered to treat the wounded of France, Belgium, Serbia, Greece & Russia etc'. Louisa Jordan from Maryhill was one of her nurses. Hopefully the temporary Covid hospital on the Clyde, named after her, will never be needed!

https://www.scotland.org/features/elsie-inglis-the-war-heroine-who-refused-to-go-home-and-sit-still

Skoosh.

[Martin Briscoe]

I found the location of the QAIMNS in York Minster, some of the information online is ambiguous. There is one photo (that I can find) of the QAIMNS panel, there could be some on other sites but you have to sign up to PINTEREST to view them.