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QSA (0) (Miss E. Fry.) officially re-impressed naming

Miss Elizabeth Fry served with the Army Nursing Service in South Africa as a Ward Maid at both No. 1 General Hospital, Wynberg, and at No. 2. General Hospital, Pretoria.

There is a KSA (0) to the ANSR on WO100/353p128 but that may be a different nurse, E A L Fry perhaps.

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ARRC GV;
QSA (0) (Nursing Sister G. L. Shelley);
KSA (0) (Nursing Sister G. L. Shelley);
British War and Victory Medals (Sister G. L. Hanley) rank officially corrected on BWM, VM officially re-impressed

Together with the recipient’s QAIMNSR cape badge.

ARRC London Gazette 31 July 1919.

Grace Lilian Hanley (née Shelley) was embarked for South Africa as a Nursing Sister in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Reserve in June 1900, and served there until November 1902.

Subsequently appointed a Sister in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Staff Reserve in October 1914, she went out to France in June 1916 and was employed at No. 14 General Hospital until the year’s end, when she returned to an appointment at the Military Hospital, Oswestry. She was still serving in the latter capacity at the time of her demobilisation in September 1919.

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QSA (0) (Nursing Sister P. Young);
KSA (0) (Nursing Sister P. Young)

There is a ANSR KSA roll entry for a nurse of this name on WO100/353p285 and a supplementary roll entry on WO100/229p354.

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Described by Spink as both a QSA and a KSA.

[ QSA (0) ];
KSA (0) (Nursing Sister I. Overbeck.

Irene Overbeck served in the Army Nursing Service Reserve as a nursing sister during the Boer War.

She married Guy Stephen in 1907 and lived in Lambeth before retiring to Italy. Their only son James died in 1918 while serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Force and Overbeck herself died in Italy on 19 July 1925

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QSA (0) (Nursing Sister McLeary.)

Nurse J C H McCleary served at the Johannesburg Civil Hospital.

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QSA (0) (Nursing Sister M. Waller)

Nursing Sister M Waller originally joined from Cottage Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, and served at the Mooi River, Natal, Howick, Natal, and Maritzburg hospitals, and then latterly at the General Hospital Ladysmith, from 10 March 1900.