Drew, please could you help with movements of 6 CCS in May 1940? I am rsearching Marian Winfield Bannister, Sister in charge.
RAMC units are always difficult to plot as I don't have any of the war diaries. I'll look in a RAMC BEF history I have this weekend if I get time.
Hi Jlo Have you looked on Ancestry - there is at least 1 tree with her information, if this is the right one of course: Marian Winfield Bannister 1879–1970 BIRTH 16TH APRIL 1879 • Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England DEATH 1970 This shows that she appears as a regular in UK & Ireland, Nursing Registers, 1898-1968, went to USA in 1928,.......... Ancestry Tree link for future reference - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/9263717/person/-830000712/facts TD
Hope this helps Drew Reference: WO 177/632 Description: 6 C.C.S. Date: 1939 Sept.- 1940 June, Aug.- 1941 July Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: Open Document, Open Description Access conditions: Closed For 50 years Reference: WO 222/677 Description: 6 C.C.S. Date: 1939 Sept.- 1940 May Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: Open Document, Open Description Reference: WO 222/678 Description: 6 C.C.S. Date: 1940 Jan.- Mar. Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: Open Document, Open Description Those 3 are the only ones that cover 1940 as far as I can see TD
She was awarded a Royal Red Cross First Class in the New Years honours list of 1918. Yorkshire Post 5th January 1918 The Royal Red Cross was instituted as a decoration by Queen Victoria by royal warrant of 23 April 1883 for award to ladies who showed special devotion while nursing the sick and wounded of the Army and Navy. In November 1915, the Royal Red Cross was expanded to two classes: First Class, or Member (RRC); and Second Class, or Associate (ARRC). In 1917, arrangements were made for Members of the First Class who perfomed further outstanding services to be awarded a bar. The decoration was specifically extended to the Nursing Services of the Royal Air Force in 1920 and to men in 1977. Award is now restricted to members of the Nursing Services of the Armed Forces and properly constituted Auxiliary Nursing Services working under Armed Forces control.
Yes, thanks. I have her info all through from birth, training & nursing, WW1, between the wars & her retirement. I'm just missing her last service with QAIMNS at 6CCS
I also have her QA nursing records which plot her career from 1907 to June 1940, when she was sent to the Civil reserve, being too old for further service with QAIMNSR. She was sent to Catterick in Sept 1939 as Sister in Charge of the 8 nurses of 6CCS. After Dunkirk, she was appointed Matron of Alton Emergency Hospital, Hants. I've yet to ascertain whether she remained there until the end of the war, but it is likely. Thanks for your searches. JLo