Product Description

In 2002 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the formation of its predecessor, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, from which the current organisation evolved. This book, presented in spectacular landscape format, has been compiled on behalf of the QARANC Association, the Corps Charity, as part of the Centenary Celebrations and to record the work and acheivements of the Army's various Regular, Reserve and Territorial Nursing Services, in peace and war, during the intervening years.

The luxurious presentation includes more than 300 black and white photographs, mostly never before published, drawn from the large Corps collection held in the Army Medical Services Museum in Aldershot. Also included, for the first time on public display, are coloured reproductions of paintings of the three former Royal Presidents and Colonels in Chief, Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary and The Princess Margaret taken from the Corps' private colection.

The work includes an introductory description of the history of military nursing from earliest times to the present day, a year by year chronology of significant events and, interspersed throughout, quotations from personal diaries and documents selected from the Corps' extensive museum collection.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #278988 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover

About the Author
Colonel Eric Gruber von Arni served for over thirty years as a nursing Officer in the Army between 1965 and 1996. He retired as Director of Studies QARANC and has subsequently gained his doctorate at Portsmouth University. He is currently working on a study of the development of Army Nursing prior to the mid-nineteenth century reforms of Florence Nightingale. His first work, entitled 'Justice to the Maimed Soldier', was published in January 2002. He is married and lives in Swindon.

Major Gary Searle is a serving Nursing Officer who is currently employed as the Head of Post-Registration Education at the Defence Medical College. He has completed several tours of duty abroad including acting as part of a British military Advisory and Training Team in South Africa. He is married with two children.