Alice Flintoff (3)
- Extended Description
- She has two service records which you can read on line for free through the National Archives. One TFNS the other QAIMNSR
Some notes from both of her service records.
1st Service Record TFNS
She was called 12 August 1914. On the 29 April 1915 she and many other nurses and military personnel were sent to London Port to join ship, Media which was booked by H.M.Goverment. On the 01 May 1915 the ship embarked for Sydney, stopping at various locations She was posted to Egypt disembarking at Port Said.
Report of Medical Board.
She was on a Medical Board at the Q.A.I.M.N.S Hospital, 71 Vincent Square, London on the 11 June 1918 aged 32 years. Total service of 05 year. She was at that time residing at 18 Salisbury Terrace, Darlington County Durham
Place of disability, 17 Stationary Hospital, Bombay, India.
She went to Egypt January 1915, thence to Mesopotamia January 1916, afterward doing duty on a Hospital Ship in the Persian Gulf until November 1916, then at various Hills Stations in India. She had an attack of fever in November 1917. She had blood test an no parasite found in blood, her heart action irregular with breathlessness.
Findings and recommendations.
Her condition is attributed to service in India and Mesopotamia E.F. (Expeditionary Force.) It is recommended two months leave and to return to England for six months and she is unfit for duty on board the Hospital Ship and not fit for further service in a very hot climate.
