NURSING STAFF
READING WAR HOSPITAL
Miss Isobel Graham WILLETTS. RRC (1916). QAIMNS.
Miss Willets trained in Birmingham General Hospital. She enlisted in Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) in March 1897. and sailed from Southampton on the SS Moor (Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd) to Cape Town. South Africa. (Second Boer War - 1899)
She was awarded the Queen's South African Medal (QSA) in 1901 whilst serving at No9 General Hospital Bloemfontein, and again in 1902 whilst serving at No14 Stationary Hospital Pietermaritzburg. https://boerwarnurses.com/boer-war-nurses-database/
She became a QAIMNS sister in 1903 and served until 1919 @ Queen Alexandras Hospital. Millbank. Royal Herbert Hospital. Woolwich, Connaught Hospital. Aldershot, Hong Kong, Reading (March 1915 - March 1916), Colchester, France (Abbeville). A very distinguished career indeed.
(The SS Moor, which leaves Southampton on Saturday, Dec 30, takes out the following Nursing Sisters to Cape Town: Miss M Thomas, (Superintendent), A Noble, K Moxon, A Teesdale, G Morgan, M Herring, E Kitching, I Willetts, M Bindloss, and 2 female servants)
Staff Nurse Jessie Gentles Mitchell (Nat. Archives WO399/5886)
READING WAR HOSPITAL
Miss Isobel Graham WILLETTS. RRC (1916). QAIMNS.
Miss Willets trained in Birmingham General Hospital. She enlisted in Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) in March 1897. and sailed from Southampton on the SS Moor (Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd) to Cape Town. South Africa. (Second Boer War - 1899)
She was awarded the Queen's South African Medal (QSA) in 1901 whilst serving at No9 General Hospital Bloemfontein, and again in 1902 whilst serving at No14 Stationary Hospital Pietermaritzburg. https://boerwarnurses.com/boer-war-nurses-database/
She became a QAIMNS sister in 1903 and served until 1919 @ Queen Alexandras Hospital. Millbank. Royal Herbert Hospital. Woolwich, Connaught Hospital. Aldershot, Hong Kong, Reading (March 1915 - March 1916), Colchester, France (Abbeville). A very distinguished career indeed.
(The SS Moor, which leaves Southampton on Saturday, Dec 30, takes out the following Nursing Sisters to Cape Town: Miss M Thomas, (Superintendent), A Noble, K Moxon, A Teesdale, G Morgan, M Herring, E Kitching, I Willetts, M Bindloss, and 2 female servants)
Staff Nurse Jessie Gentles Mitchell (Nat. Archives WO399/5886)