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Old 22-07-2018, 09:36 PM
Everhard Everhard is offline
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Great Pics Everhard.

QARANCs, met a few of them over the years. Their female accommodation blocks and messes were generally Out Of Bounds to male personnel, however 'where there's a will.........'.

Matrons' (Commissioned) ward uniform of the the same period was almost Victorian in its splendour.

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Yes, the officers (sisters) had darker grey ward dresses with red capes and big flat white hats made in a kind of folded-over double layer. I have a couple of books about the QARANCs. This video on YouTube is currently my favorite film (for personal reasons):

Q.A. nursing (1978):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxOnvFG2TjE

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