Jacket

[phaethon]

Hi all,

This jacket is available here in Dublin and I am wondering what jacket it is. Unfortunately no extra pictures are available at the moment.





Thanks,

Timo

[54Bty]

QARANC Regimental Colonel, nice find.

Marc

[oc14]

Looks to be that of a Colonel formerly of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. Ribbons appear to be those of the Royal Red Cross and General Service Medal 1918-62
PL

[phaethon]

Thank you guys for so fast replies!

[phaethon]

Can this be an owners name on the label - M.F.J.TREACY? (Hope I got them right)

[54Bty]

Originally Posted by phaethon

Can this be an owners name on the label - M.F.J.TREACY? (Hope I got them right)

Yes.

Marc

[High Wood]

London Gazette 26th August 1975

Lt-Col Mary Frances Treacy. A.R.R.C. (421844) retires on retired pay, 20th August 1975.

[phaethon]

Wow, thank you so much....



Mary Frances (Joan) TREACY was born on 20 Aug 1920 in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary. She died on 23 Oct 2003 in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. She was buried in Shanganagh Cemetery, Dublin.

The name on Joan's birth certificate is Mary Frances and on her baptismal certificate it is Mary Bridget. However, she was called Joan by her family, although her nursing records are in the name of Mary Frances. She used the name is name for most of her life until after her retirement when she changed it to Jo-Ann.

Jo-Ann trained as a nurse in Manchester, qualifying in 1944. She had always wanted to travel so, following a number of years of general and industrial nursing in the UK, she joined the QARANC (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps) in 1952. Her first foreign posting was to Benghazi in Libya in 1953, followed by Cyprus in 1954.

Jo-Ann returned to England in 1956 and, while working at Shorncliffe Military Hospital, decided she wanted to specialise in nurse training. She embarked on a two-year course in Hull University, obtaining a Diploma in Nurse Training and Education in 1959, after which she spent many years training student nurses overseas during postings to Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore. In 1963, while serving in Hong Kong, she was awarded an Associate Royal Red Cross (ARRC) medal for exceptional services in military nursing.

Following her permanent return to England in 1970 Jo-Ann continued to train nurses at the military hospitals in Tidworth, Colchester, Aldershot and Woolwich. She retired in 1975 as Director of Studies at Woolwich and as acting colonel. She lived briefly in Brighton following her retirement before settling in Henfield in West Sussex. Jo-Ann never married although it is believed that she was engaged in the 1950s, possibly to a military doctor. Sadly, the marriage never took place because apparently her fiancé was killed in a bomb explosion in Cyprus, about which we have no details.





She was posted to Hong Kong in the early 1960s and in 1963 she was awarded an Associate Royal Red Cross (ARRC) medal for exceptional services in military nursing. She is pictured here receiving the medal from the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Robert Brown Black.


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