A web site dedicated to the study of the Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) and National Asylum Workers Union (NAWU), National Union of County Officers (NUCO) including the Guild of Nurses. The site also notes the positive role COHSE, NUPE, & NALGO Nurses played in the formation of UNISON Nursing Sector, the premier nursing union.
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DUNDEE NURSES
KILLED IN WW1
Jessie Ritchie
Cargill, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.
Sister of James Ritchie of The Neuk, Rosemount Blairgowrie, Pertshire, Scotland.
Trained at the Royal infirmary Dundee Scotland.
later worked for the Nurses...
National Asylum Workers Union
Private Fred Cartmell; 8th Battalion King's Own Royal Lanacter Regiment, Rainhill Asylum staff and union member
He was invalided home early in from wounds received in September 1917 returned to the front and was killed...
The first hospital ship used during war time, came into service during the American Civil War.
The USS Mound City had captured the "Red Rover" from the Confederates on 7 April 1862 and the ship was later turned into a hospital ship, USS Red Rover on...
Henrietta Mellett
Irish-Canadian Nurse
By Marc Leroux
Sometimes fate gives us a chance to do things that we might otherwise miss.
A couple of weeks ago I was updating the cause of death for all the Nursing Sisters in the Canadian Great war Project....
Tangley/Tilford ward new Royal Surrey County Hospital, Simply the best staff and ward at RSCH in the 1980's solid COHSE, many ex Milford Chest Hospital nurses
I salute you all and hope your doing well
at least one important nurse missing from this...