Darlington WW1 nurses

[carolmc]

Hi, I have an old photo of an older lady in nurses uniform, assuming ww1, can anyone help with info on nurses in Darlington please? Do any records exist? Any help appreciated Carolmc

[Maggsie]

Hi,
My Great Aunt was a nurse in WW1, while transferring injured soldiers back from France she died on the troupe train crash at Quintins Hill in 1915.
Her family in Ireland were informed.
It was only in the last 5 years I found out about the crash and the exact place.
I sent a letter to a presenter of History programmes with all the info I had and funny that he actually made a programme about it about a year later. I never did get a reply from him.
I have been up to Edinburgh to Scotland's People and the Archives and have never found any lists of any Nurses.
I have searched Ancestry and all other sites.
From what I have been told there isn't any info on the Nurses.
I did find 2 records.
One nurse died in France and another died in Galway and these were in Family Trees.
 
Maggsie

[stanmapstone]

There was no central register of civilian nurses before 1921. Before 1919, when the General Nursing Council was established, records of nurses were kept by individual nurse training schools, most of which were attached to major hospitals, where the records can often still be found.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/patients-doctors-nurses/

Stan

[Maggsie]

 Thanks for this info.
Maggsie

[Jomot]

There are details of Red Cross Nurses via the link below, just put Darlington in to the Location box

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jf2/

Also some useful information here:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jf3/

[Peterhastie]

I have come across a few Nurses on the 1918/19 Absent Voters Register for Newcastle.

I believe Find My Past has registers online, maybe Darlington.

If not then Darlo library may have them.

[Birkbeck]

I did find a Matron I was looking for not long ago in a section on Ancestry called "Nursing Registers".

Carolmc, what does the picture look like?  Can you share it?

[carolmc]

Thank you for all the replies. I don't own the photo, so I can't publish it. I've tried contacting the local history society, but haven't received a reply as yet, otherwise I'll have to wait as a journey 'up north' is a summertime thing.
regards carolmc

[Birkbeck]

Carol, Is the lady wearing any kind of badge or medal or symbol of some kind? I did an instance like this not long ago, where the lady turned out to be not a nurse, but a lady working for the Women's Auxiliary of the YMCA. By the way, I don't think that posting the photo will infringe copyright unless it has been taken from a book which is covered by copyright, a website like that of the IWM or is covered by copyright in some other way.

May I ask why you think that the lady is connected to Darlington?