Hello. My husband and I have a war and social history museum on the south coast of Western Australia. I have recently purchased a nice grouping of items that purportedly belonged to a WWI nurse named Theresa Marie CORNISH. It includes a white cloth armband with a red cross on it, a large metal crucifix, a metal box used to hold candles, a small metal container to hold morphine ampoules and a 1916 coin that has been shot through with a bullet. They were purchased at a house clearance in Sidmouth in 2012. The purchaser at that time wrote down some details about the nurse which included her name and the fact that she had served at a hospital in Boulogne, France during WWI and was evacuated from Guernsey during WWII. I have had no luck locating any information about her and would appreciate anything that you may find. I posted this on Rootschat yesterday and they suggested contacting this forum. Many thanks, Kathryn.
Have you looked on the National Archives Website? I have researched a WW1 Sister and her personal file, allbeit a medical one that took her service into the 1920s survived and that had all her personal detail dob etc
I can't help specifically with your nurse but I would suggest that you have a look at the Scarlet Finders website http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/ The website is all about military nurses and VADs and has masses of information about nurses during WW1 as well as guides for how to research them. Sadly, Sue Light who created the website died a couple of years ago, so it's no longer being updated but is still a brilliant resource.
