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THE QARANC ASSOCIATION
“Charitable Incorporated Organisation” 1163821
Patron
Her Royal Highness the Countess of Wessex
Vice Patrons
Lieutenant Colonel (Retd) L J Murray Major (Retd) J Machray MBE
President
Colonel Alison McCourt OBE ARRC QHN
Vice President
Colonel (Retd) John Quinn OStJ
Chairman
Colonel Carol Kefford
General Secretary
Ms Sue McAteer
Regimental Headquarters QARANC
Robertson House, Slim Road, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 4NP
Telephone: 01276 412754
Email: gensec@qarancassociation.org.uk
General/membership queries: 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/
Website Manager: Major Alex Saunders Email: webmanager@qarancassociation.org.uk
THE GAZETTE QARANC 1
Queen Alexandra’s
Royal Army Nursing Corps
THE GAZETTE
Vol 16 No 2 2018 • Autumn 2018
Contents
President’s Foreword...............................2 Editorial .................................................... 3 Chairman’s Report...................................3 RHQ Update.............................................4 Association Membership..........................4 Trustees and Staff....................................5 Association Support for Older Members ...6 Legion d’Honneur .................................... 6 Exercise COLD WARRIOR ........................ 7 208 Field Hospital Battlefield Study..........8 Florence Nightingale Service....................9 QARANC Awards and Glover Lecture.....10 Colonel Jane Davis..................................10 Medicine and Innovation ......................... 11 International Military Pilgrimage Lourdes...12 Centenary History 201 Field Hospital.......14 DMS Research Forum.............................14 South Tees Nightingale Awards...............15 D-Day Revisited with Normandy Veterans ...18 The Nurse of the Mediterranean............20 Ex ASKARI SERPENT..............................22 Surgeon General at the RCN..................23 Writing Armistice Poetry Competition.....24 Deployment to Pakistan Op Panaka.......25 RCI NI Nurse of the Year Awards...........26 Military Nurse Practitioners – PGMO course.. 28 Olympic Dreams.....................................29 AMS Polo Margot Turner Challenge Cup 30 AMS Ladies Football USA Tour................31 AMS Women’s Rugby ............................ 32 Ex GRAND SLAM 18...............................33 Ex THAI SERPENT..................................34 Army Women’s Rugby ........................... 35 Ex NORTHERN COLD SOLDIER .............36 Museum of Military Medicine Update ..... 37 Corps Heritage Matters ......................... 38 National Nursing Memorial.....................39 Branch News ......................................... 40 The London Gazette .............................. 48 Obituaries ..............................................49 The Last Post.........................................52
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