ROLL OF HONOUR

1914 - 1918
BENNET, HELENA STEWART
BERRIE, Charlotte
BLAKE, Edith
BOUE-BLANDY, STELLA ROSE
BRACE F E
BROWN E L
CHALLINOR, ELIZABETH ANNIE
CLOUGH, Mary
COOKE E K
COOPER, ANNE
CROYSDALE, MARJORIE
CRUICKSHANK, ISABELLA QA (Res)
DAWES,A E
DAWSON, EVELINE MAUD
DICKSON, May
FERGUSON, Rachel
FOYSTER, ELLEN LUCY
GURNEY,E S
HAWLEY, NELLIE
JACK, Christina RRCNS ARRC.
JONES, GERTRUDE EILEEN
McALISTER, CLARA
MANN, AGNES GREIG
MASON, FANNY
MUNRO, REBECCA McMURRAY
PARKER, ELIZABETH KELLY
PARTRIDGE, CONSTANCE HARRIET
PEARSE, PHYLLIS ADA
RADCLIFFE, E B
ROBERTS, ANNIE LOUISE
ROBERTS E
ROBERTS, JANE
ROBERTS M D
RUSSELL,A M
SMITH, F E
SMITH, JEANIE BARCLAY RRC
THOMAS, LILIAN
THOMSON, Elizabeth Robertson
WILSON,Myrtle Elizabeth
1939 - 1945
AIREY, Freda
ATKIN, Joyce Kathleen
AYERS, Eileen Norah
BALFOUR, Audrey, Margaret Craig S.R.N.
BATES F M
BATEMAN Edith Mary
BEVIS, EVA EMILY
BISHOP, HILDA CONSTANCE MARIE
BLACK, Charlotte Florence
BOYD-ROBERTS, Sylvia Caldwell
BOWYER, D
BOUNDY, E
BRADY, D.J
BRAND, Mary (Gold Medalist,Queen's Hospital,Birmingham)
BROWN, Amy
BURROWS, Isabella
BUTLER, Susan
CARROLL, Edith Katherine
CASSON, Florence Rebecca
CHEYNE, A M
CLEMENT, Nadia Mathilda
CLEWETT, Catherine Hilda S.R.N., C.M.B
COULTER, Joan COWARD, Laura
CRIBB, Cecelia Maude
CURRAN, Jane Simpson Annand
DALGARNO, Elsie Alice
DANN, Elizabeth Doritha
DERVAN, Gertrude
DEWAR, Alice Whitehead
DIXON, Sarah Elizabeth
DORAN, Teresa
DOWLING, Beatrice Olivia
DUNLOP, Doreen Violet
ESSEX, Rosemary Nancy
EVANS, MAIR ELUNED
FARRELLY, MARY
FINLEY, Margaret Raven
FITZGERALD, CATHERINE MARY
FLECK, EMMA
GARDNER, ANNIE MARY
HADRIDGE, ESTHER
HARRISON, WINNIE ALICE ELIZABETH
HARVEY, GRACE WESSLINK
HASTINGS, VALERIE FRANCES
HERVEY MURRAY,Agnes Joan
HOBBES, Florence Narrelle Jessie
HOLLIS, ENID KATHLEEN
HOOD, MARGARET ANN
HUMPHREY, Muriel Christine
IEVERS, EILEEN MARY ELISE
JARMAN, MARIE
JOHNSTON, MAUD FREDALINE
JONES, Violet Maud Evelyn
KELLS, MAGGIE JANE
KELLS, WINIFRED EVELYN
LADKIN, Ellen Amelia
LECKEY, MURIEL EMILY
LEECH, BARBARA ELISABETH
LITTLETON, MARY JOYCE
LUCAS, LILIAN MARY
MACLAREN, JEAN NOEL
McBRYDE, KATHERINE DAISY
McGREGOR, MABEL DOUGLAS
McMILLAN, MARION LENNOX
MANFIELD, CONSTANCE DOROTHY
MAWSTON, EDNA MAY
MAXWELL, MARGARET
MONTGOMERY, Helen Louise
MOORE, ISABELLA
MOORHEAD, NORA MARY
MORGAN, SARAH
MORRIS, DORA MARY
NICOLSON, CHRISTINA MARGARET
NOLAN, MARGARET
NUTTALL, PHYLLIS
O'SULLIVAN, MARGARET MARY
PEDLOW, Edith Doreen
PIRIE, BARBARA
PITT, JOAN
PORTERFIELD, HELEN
PORTINGALE, JANET SCOTT
QUIN, ELLEN WINIFRED
REED, Margaret Ellen
RHODEN, EILEEN ELIZABETH
RICHARDSON, SYBIL GWENDOLINE
ROBERTSON, HELEN MURRAY
RUSSELL, Winifred
SATCHELL,MARY S.R.N., S.C.M.
SCOTT, ISABELLA
SENIOR, DORIS ENA
SMITH, MARJORIE
SPENCE, ISOBEL
SULLIVAN, Nancy S.R.N., S.R.F.N
SUTHERLAND, BARBARA MUNRO
SYMONDS, Lorna Sybil
TAYLOR, KATHERINE MARY MONICA
THOMAS, JANE MAIR GEORGE
TOMBS, Dorothy Helen
TONGE, MARY ISABEL
TOOHEY, KATHLEEN
TUDOR, HETTIE ANNIE
URQUHART, MARY ANNIE ROSS
WALKER, KATHLEEN HEWISON
WARWICK, ROBERTA ALICE
WATERS, GLADYS
WELLS, Brenda Irene S.R.N., S.C.M., S.R.F.N
WEST, Cicely Lucy May (RRC)
WHEELOCK, LILIAN MARIA ETHEL
WHITAKER, MAFALDA SELENE
WHITE, GWENDOLINE MAY
WHITE, KATHERINE FRANCES MARY
WIGHT, Rosetta Joan
WILLIS, ANNIE AMELIA
WINGATE, ADELINE RITA
WOOD, WINIFRED MARY FRY
WRIGHT, Irene
YOUNG, ELEANOR JANE
the Military Medal
Ethel Garrett
Sister Ethel Garrett was awarded the Military Medal (MM) during the First World War for her brave actions during an enemy air raid on Number 37 General Hospital which was attached to the Serbian army. Together with QA Reserve sisters Rebecca Calhoun and Margaret Smith Dewar they tried to provide cover for their patients. Sister Dewar was struck in the chest by a piece of bomb casing that had exploded nearby as she knelt over a wounded soldier. Sister Calhoun went to her aid but she died in her arms. She herself did not escape injury during this air raid and was hit by a bomb splinster as she attended patients. Sister Garrett attended a soldier who had been wounded by a German bomb and had sustained a compound fracture of his skull. She risked her own life to administer life saving first aid. Whilst she was doing this 14 bombs fell within an 80 yard radius of their location.
Ethel Garrett was a member of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve QAIMN(R) and served at No 37 General Hospital at Vertekop, Solonika during WWI. She was also awarded the French Croix-de-Guerre and the Serbian Military Medal For Valour from the Crown Prince of Serbia (also awarded to Sister Calhoun and was the first time it was awarded to women). She died in February 1972. She was 89 years old.

During The Great War 65 Military Medals were awarded to military nurses. Nursing Sisters of the QAIMNS had no rank structure during the Great War so were awarded the Military Medal rather than the Officer equivalent of the Military Cross (MC).
In his book Wartime Nurse: One Hundred Years from the Crimea to Korea 1854-1954 Eric Taylor documents two nurses who were involved in a bombing during the First World War that killed one QA and badly injured another. They administered emergency first aid during the air raid and ensured their safe evacuation before reporting back to duty in the operating theatre. They were awarded the Military Medal for displaying the most wonderful courage. Unfortunately the names of the QAIMNS nursing sisters are not cited.