6CCS

Discussion in '1940' started by Jlo, Sep 15, 2017.

  1. Jlo

    Jlo Member

    Drew, please could you help with movements of 6 CCS in May 1940? I am rsearching Marian Winfield Bannister, Sister in charge.
     
  2. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    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.
     
  3. Jlo

    Jlo Member

    Thanks.
    Any info, however brief, would help.
     
  4. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    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
     
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  5. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    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
     
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  6. Guy Hudson

    Guy Hudson Looker-upper

    She was awarded a Royal Red Cross First Class in the New Years honours list of 1918.

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    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.
     
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  7. Jlo

    Jlo Member

    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
     
  8. Jlo

    Jlo Member

    She was awarded both medals & was mentioned in dispatches twice.
     
  9. Jlo

    Jlo Member

    Thanks very much for this.
     
  10. Jlo

    Jlo Member

    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
     

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