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THE QARANC ASSOCIATION
“Charitable Incorporated Organisation” 1163821
Patron
Her Royal Highness the Countess of Wessex
President
Colonel Alison Farmer QHN ARRC CNO (Army)
Chair
Colonel (Retd) John Quinn
General Secretary
Sue McAteer
Telephone: 07764 271516
Email: gensec@qarancassociation.org.uk
Charity Office Manager
Sarah Young
Telephone: 01276 421754
Email: manager@qarancassociation.org.uk
Administrative Officer
Alison Roberts
Email: admin@qarancassociation.org.uk
QARANC Association Gazette
Editor: Major (Retd) Alison Spires TD
Gazette submissions: gazette@qarancassociation.org.uk
Website: http://www.qarancassociation.org.uk/
Postal address:
Regimental Headquarters QARANC
Robertson House, Slim Road, Camberley, Surrey GU15 4NP
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THE GAZETTE
Vol 19 No 2 2021 • Autumn 2021
Contents
Editorial ................................................................................................................. 2 Correction............................................................................................................ 2 President’s Foreword ...................................................................................3 Trustees and staff of the QARANC Association..........................4 Regular QARANC Officers Tippet Medals......................................5 Report from the Chair of the Association Trustees....................5 Obituary: Captain Dawn Jamieson .....................................................6 Hello Instagram!...............................................................................................6 Lee Richens – the first QARANC AMS Corps RSM.................. 7
COVID-19 Pandemic – using operational experience in the Ebola crisis to train staff.......................................................................8
Infection Prevention and Control at James Cook University Hospital .........................................................................................................9
Healthcare Assistant Foundation Course 20/002 DMS Whittington................................................................................................. 10
Laying a foundation for the future – the first QA Instructor at the Army Foundation College..........................................................11
RCDM Development and Command Day ..................................... 12
International Nurses Day: East Wellow Commemoration 12 May 2021......................................................................................................13
Representing Military Nurses at the Florence Nightingale Commemoration Service 2021 ......................................................14
Army Open Water Swimming ...............................................................15
A Wounded Year............................................................................................15
EX NORTHERN SEA SERPENT ........................................................16
Tea and Toast – the military act of kindness... reducing isolation ........................................................................................................ 18
Edith Cavell’s Presence in Pandemic Nursing............................19
Honouring the Heroic Sacrifice of Anne Fletcher....................20
Museum of Military Medicine Update .............................................. 21
‘Works of many hands: Nurses autograph books and military hospital culture in and after WW1’ ............................ 22
Her War.............................................................................................................. 24
Joint Hospital Group (SE) Freedom of the Borough of Surrey Heath............................................................................................................. 25
Branch News..................................................................................................26 Chester Branch.............................................................................................26 Newcastle Branch.......................................................................................26 Jurassic Coast Branch...............................................................................27 Midland Branch.............................................................................................28 Northern Ireland Branch.......................................................................... 29 Scottish Branch ............................................................................................ 32 Welsh Branch.................................................................................................33 Obituaries ......................................................................................................... 34 Linda Kay Foster (nee Brown).............................................................34 Penelope Cook..............................................................................................35 The Last Post.................................................................................................35 Awards, Appointments and Promotions........................................36
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