QARNNS Reunited

This page is designed for people who want to track down old QARNNS colleagues. If you want your details added to this page contact Lt Matt Wesson via the details of the homepage.

Maggie is looking for Pat LEE (nee BALL). We joined up at HASLAR in 1962 - JENNER CLASS. Pat married a RFA Officer – Dave LEE and they settled in New South Wales, Australia. We lost touch over the years but Maggie would dearly love to make contact again as she and her husband Ivor are visiting Oz in 2011.

I am trying to trace an ex-Qarnns naval nurse called MARGARET WILKINSON (home town Leicester) who served with me at HMS FULMAR - RNAS LOSSIEMOUTH between 1966/1967, myself as a `RADIO OPERATOR` in the Control Tower, Margaret as a nurse.
Email: asf333@btopenworld.com

I joined Haslar in June 1967 to do SEN training. I later went into higher education, become a historian and university lecturer. I am currently researching education and work from the 1950s to the 1990s. I would like to hear from anyone who joined the QAs in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, particularly those who went to secondary modern school having failed the 11+. I hope that ex naval nurses can provide some information on the qualifications they had to begin training in the QAs and some thoughts on the current proposals for an all graduate nursing profession.

If you would like to contribute to my research please contact me and I will send you a questionnaire and further details.

I am hoping to catch up with some long lost friends who served with me between May 1965 and October 1968. My name was Jackie Smith and I was in PTS 8. I left to get married and have since remarried and my name is now Jackie Christer. If there is anyone out there who remembers me I would love to hear from you.

I am trying to find members of V class who joined at stonehouse in may 1971 for a possible reunion next October at the stonehouse reunion in Plymouth . I am in touch with Ann Johnson ,Carol Booth we would love to see old friends again.

I am trying to trace a girl that I was at school with. Lorraine Slater is Scottish with Red hair and will be 40 in January. She left school in 1988 to join QARNNS - I think she would have joined straight from school in '88. She was medically paid of - perhaps around 1995 due to a back injury. The last I heard was that she was married with a child. If anyone knows of her and can give me any information then it would be gratefully received.

I am one of the 'oldies' of the service being a Red Cross VAD first when I joined in 1959 and then joining the newly formed QARNNS-my number was 0011. So is there any of my friends from RNH Chatham or RNH Bighi out there? I am still in contact with my friends, Dorothy Hewitt, Jean Goldthorp and Cathy Haney -now all married and like me with families. We have been meeting up at the UJC talking over old times and wondering what has happened to all our friends from Chatham and Malta.

I am currently trying to locate all of those in 'my' Class, PTS 24 of September 1970 at RNH Haslar for a 40th Anniversary Reunion, at the next RNH Stonehouse Reunion at the Holiday Inn Plymouth in October 2010. So far I have found 25 of the 29 but am struggling with the last four. yours sincerely, David Rawson JPMT(N)2 to POMA served 1968-92

Patricia is looking for class mates who joined RNH Haslar January 1964 The class name was 'Lind. My name at the time was Rusty BIRD, which changed to Lennon in 1966, I stayed in Nurse training until I departed for Australia. Now returned to UK
Email: trinorm@hotmail.com