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Territorial Force Nursing Service



4th Jan 1915 Gifts

5th Jan 1915 Nurses Needed

6th Jan 1915 Beds Increased

8th Jan 1915 Report Requested

9th Jan 1915 Accomodation

10th Jan 1915 Accomodation

11th Jan 1915 Accomodation

12th Jan 1915 Correspondence

14th Jan 1915 Visit

15th Jan 1915 Facilities

16th Jan 1915 Rest Facilities

17th Jan 1915 Accomodation

18th Jan 1915 Influenza

19th Jan 1915 Appointments

20th Jan 1915 Reinforcements

21st Jan 1915 Cold Weather

22nd Jan 1915 Pay

23rd Jan 1915 Illness

24th Jan 1915 Correspondence

26th Jan 1915 Pay and Allowances

27th Jan 1915 Nurses Required

28th Jan 1915 Shelling

29th Jan 1915 Artillery Active

30th Jan 1915 Increase in Staff

31st Jan 1915 Influenza

6th Feb 1916 Visit

8th Feb 1916 Identity Discs

9th Feb 1916 Field Allowance

10th Feb 1916 Field Allowance

11th Feb 1916 Correspondence

12th Feb 1916 Correspondence

13th Feb 1916 Postings

14th Feb 1916 Postings

15th Feb 1916 Admissions

16th Feb 1916 Correspondence

17th Feb 1916 Correspondence

18th Feb 1916 Contracts Renewed

19th Feb 1916 Nurses Required

20th Feb 1916 Transfers

21st Feb 1916 Requests

22nd Feb 1916 Reinforcements

23rd Feb 1916 Renewals

24th Feb 1916 Visit

25th Feb 1916 Heavy Snow

25th Feb 1916 Rest Clubs

26th Feb 1916 Correspondence

28th Feb 1916 Correspondence

29th Feb 1916 Correspondence

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Want to know more about the Territorial Force Nursing Service?


There are:6627 items tagged Territorial Force Nursing Service available in our Library

  These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.


Those known to have served with

Territorial Force Nursing Service

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Byford Nellie Elizabeth. Nurse.
  • Cox Margaret Annie. Nurse (d.7th February 1919)
  • Hutchinson Nicholina Theodora . Matron.
  • Selvey Kate Selwood. Staff Nurse
  • Turnbull Elizabeth Munro. Nurse.
  • Wills Mary Elizabeth. Staff Nurse (d.30th Mar 1918)

All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please. Add a Name to this List

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Nurse. Nellie Elizabeth Byford

My great-aunt Nellie Byford, as family story is told, was a nurse in the Territorial Nursing Service.I have an autograph book started in 1916 at the Penrhym V.A.D. Lodge. There are many pages of handwritten thank you notes by wounded soldiers to Nurse Byford, signed by them and indicating units or regiments they were attached to. I would like to learn more about the facility, the activities, staff and recognition of service and photos.

Dave Lynes




262898

Matron. Nicholina Theodora "Dora" Hutchinson

Lady Superintendant of Drumcondra Hospital in 1912, Dora Hutchinson was appointed in April 1915 as Matron of the Portobello Hospital.

Born in 1877 in Cavan, she was the daughter of the Reverend William Henry Hutchinson and his wife Nicholina Deverell. She died, unmarried, in 1955 at the Mercers Hospital, Dublin. Her aunt Letitia Deverell was married to the hospital chaplain at Drumcondra, the Rev. Henry Taylor.

The photograph is from a family archive now belonging to Kings Inns Dublin it is part of a collection of items preserved by Ireland's first practicing woman barrister Averil Katherine Statter Deverell, who was Nicholina's 2nd cousin.

Liz Goldthorpe




259388

Nurse. Elizabeth Munro Turnbull 3rd Scottish General Hospital

Elizabeth Turnbull signed up with the Territorial Force Nursing Service on the 10th November 1915. She was stationed at Yorkhill War Hospital, part of the 3rd Scottish General Hospital in Glasgow. Unfortunately, she was permanently invalided from service by a medical board on 17th July 1918 (paid until 25th July), and was awarded the Silver War Badge. She had been a witness at a court-martial at Edinburgh Castle in September 1917, where she got a severe wetting and chill, and developed acute cystitis.

Julie Robert




231097

Nurse Margaret Annie Cox 2nd Western Field Hospital, Manchester (d.7th February 1919)

Margaret Annie Cox was the daughter of Mrs Bridget Cox of Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim. Died of influenza at age 35 and is buried in the South-East part of old ground of the Ardcarne (St. Beo-Aedh's) Old Graveyard, Co. Roscommon.

1919 Nov 11. Mothers letter to the War Office. The late Annie Cox. Staff Nurse, T.F.N.S. Died (at home) February-1919. Sir. May I respectfully bring to your special notice-my case (as mother of deceased) Staff Nurse Annie Cox. She contracted Lethargic Meningitis after Influenza. Was ordered complete rest and change. She arrived home practically to die as she went to bed next day from which she never rose and died 06-February-1919. She cost me more than I could afford, comforting her, and funeral expenses. She was buried 08-February-1919. May I beg that at least the funeral expenses be refunded to me. She was a great loss to me in every way. Are Nurses on some ----------as soldiers?----some kind of allowence? Mrs B Cox. Mother. (£38-9-5 was later sent to Mrs B Cox. )

s flynn




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Staff Nurse Mary Elizabeth Wills Territorial Force Nursing Service (d.30th Mar 1918)

Mary Elizabeth Wills, Staff Nurse, served in the Territorial Force Nursing Service and died age 33 on the 30th March 1918. She is remembered at St. Paul's Church and is buried in Jarrow Cemetery. Her name was also on a marble tablet which was in the chapel of Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank, London. The memorial tablet was moved to the Royal Garrison Church, Farnborough Road, Aldershot during the later redevelopment of Millfield. Mary's brother John George Wills was also one of the fallen in the Great War.

Mary was born in Cramlington 1885 and had lived in Jarrow. She was the daughter of Jabez and Mary Wills of 62 Wansbeck Road, Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family was living at this address. John(56) was a waiter in a restaurant and Mary(56) his wife. Margy(24), Lily(16) and John G(15) but Mary Elizabeth(27) and Ethel(21) are no longer resident.

Vin Mullen




210737

Staff Nurse Kate Selwood Selvey

My great aunt Kate Selwood Selvey (born 29th June 1889 in Portishead, Somerset, England) worked during the Great War as a Nurse in the Territorial Force Nursing Service in several hospitals including the 1st Southern Hospital.

Ward in the 1st Southern Hospital in 1914

Stephanie Joan Selwood Keenan








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