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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 K Irvine RRC QHN L/QARANC
Vice President
Colonel (Retd) JDF Quinn OStJ
Chairman
Colonel S Bush RRC
REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS QARANC
Robertson House,
Slim Road, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 4NP
Military Medical Museum
Jason Semmens MA. AMA 01252 868612 / 94229 5212
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THE GAZETTE QARANC 1
Queen Alexandra’s
Royal Army Nursing Corps
THE GAZETTE
Vol 15 No 1 2017 • Spring 2017
Contents
President’s Foreword ...............................................2 Chairman’s Report....................................................3 Appointment of Master General Army Medical
Services...............................................................4 Update on the Chief Nursing Officer (Army)
2016 Study Days.......................................................5 Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps
Association Trustees’ Annual Report ..................6 TheQARANCAssociationBoardofTrustees..................8 Ex BAJAN VIKING Sports Tour Barbados ...................9 DHE Student Nurses In Madagascar.......................10 205 (Scottish) Field Hospital do the Highland fling...12 Royal College of Nursing (Scotland) Centenary ......14 D-Day Landings with D-Day Revisited and the
Normandy Veterans 2–9 June 2016 ..................15 Exercise Snowbuck 2016 .......................................16 Deployment to Kenya..............................................19 Army Medical Services Training Tour......................20 Defence Medical Group (North) Annual Awards......21 Exercise Tiger Frimley Alpine..................................22 Jordan.....................................................................22 Battlefield Study Tour 2016 ....................................23 Op Cantina Overlord ...............................................24 Coltman VC Stretcher Carry 2016 ...........................25 Running for BLESMA...............................................26 Defence Stammering Network Presentation ..........28 Exercise Diamond Challenge ..................................29 Cenotaph 13th November 2016 – A Personal View ...32 Branch News ..........................................................33 QARANC Honours and Awards ................................43 Did you know that Florence Nightingale’s
goddaughter was an Army nurse? ....................44 The Unveiling Of The Painting ‘What Matters Most’45 Army Nurse Academic Achievements.....................46 London Gazette.......................................................48 Last Post.................................................................49
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