{"id":303,"date":"2015-05-27T09:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T09:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/05\/27\/in-march-1888-a-group-of-british-nurses-arrived-in\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:32:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:32:27","slug":"nursing-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/05\/27\/nursing-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing in India, 1888"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-303 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/05\/27\/nursing-in-india\/attachment\/304\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/files\/2015\/05\/tumblr_nopmffE9VK1tit5hqo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In March 1888 a group of British nurses arrived in India to\u00a0help establish the Indian Army Nursing Service. They consisted of eight Nursing\u00a0Sisters and were led by two Lady Superintendents, Miss Catherine Grace Loch and\u00a0Miss Jessie Elizabeth Oxley. \u00a0Miss Loch\u00a0and five of the Sisters, Rachel Angela Betty, Ellen Dobede Harris, Elizabeth\u00a0Mary Lickfold, Martha Ella Maude Latch and Edith Welchman, were immediately\u00a0deployed to Rawalpindi while Miss Oxley and the remaining Sisters were sent to\u00a0Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph above was given to the Royal British Nurses\u2019\u00a0Association (RBNA) in 1930 and shows Catherine Loch (seated, centre) and the\u00a0other nurses in Rawalpindi shortly after they had arrived. \u00a0Unfortunately, we have not been able to\u00a0identify which four of the five Sisters are in the picture.<\/p>\n<p>All of these nurses, except Edith Welchman, were members of\u00a0the RBNA and appear in our online database \u2013 Pioneering Nurses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingscollections.org\/nurses\">www.kingscollections.org\/nurses<\/a>\u00a0which has just been updated to include all the nurses in the RBNA register from\u00a0the first entry in 1890 through to 1932.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 1888 a group of British nurses arrived in India to\u00a0help establish the Indian Army Nursing Service. They consisted of eight Nursing\u00a0Sisters and were led by two Lady Superintendents, Miss Catherine Grace Loch and\u00a0Miss Jessie Elizabeth Oxley. \u00a0Miss Loch\u00a0and five of the Sisters, Rachel Angela Betty, Ellen Dobede Harris, Elizabeth\u00a0Mary Lickfold, Martha Ella Maude &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/05\/27\/nursing-in-india\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nursing in India, 1888&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,251,246],"tags":[209,208,207,96,206],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-kclca","category-empirecommonwealth","category-historyofmedicinehealth","tag-army-nurses","tag-army-nursing-service","tag-india","tag-nurses","tag-rbna","post_format-post-format-gallery","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}