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 Ali Warburton via the details of the homepage.

I was in Class A, SEN intake 1972, and I am having a reunion for our class on 28th August 2010, I have located most of our class but Im still looking for Ruby Thomas and Fay Dove to complete our numbers, if anyone knows anything about them Id appreciate you contacting me.

The first ever Multi-Class reunion for RNH Haslar will take place in the 300 Capacity Ballroom of the Thorngate Halls, Bury Road, Gosport on Bank Holiday Sunday the 1st May 2011 between Noon and 5pm. There will be a fully licensed Bar throughout, A cold Buffet Lunch with background 'period' Music and for the last half of the event a circa 1965-75 Haslar Club 'Blank Week' style Disco with a Pro DJ.

Cost is £20 per head with all profits going to Help for Heroes. The RNH Haslar Reunion is now a recognised and Registered H4H Fundraising event with a target of at least £1000 from ticket sales profits, assuming a 'Full house'.

The event is currently open to all VAD Nurses, QARNNS Nursing Officers and Ratings who Served at or Trained at RNH Haslar from the 1st January 1950 ( ...or before!) up to and including the 31st December 1979.

Please see Facebook/RNH Haslar Reunion for more info...Old friends. Old and new Photographs of Colleagues, comment and Discussion.

For details see Facebook/RNH Haslar Reunion or contact the organiser David Rawson via email on

All of those who register on the Facebook RNH Haslar Reunion Group Members list, whatever year they trained there, and who pay early (£20 per head) will get priority for places at the Reunion

I would love to make contact with any Staff or patients from the time I was in Zymotics from Jun 1960 to April 1961. Among those I remember are Xinnia Andrews Uffa Fox and Ann Maslen.

I was a patient in RNH Haslar from 1967-69,I came from HMS Vidal in the West Indies. Would love to contact any QARNNS who nursed me through those difficult days , especially Sally Anne P.J. and her SRN class. I cannot believe that it was 40 years ago, time marches on!.

Peter is looking for a friend with whom he served with in Singapore in 1962/3. Her name is Jean Robertson and she may have retired in 1980. He believes her last posting was Haslar Hospital.

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.

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 QA’s 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 QA’s 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.

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

Julie is looking for anyone from PTS 14 15th. May 1967 -a date to remember. Remembering Lindy Ralph, Shellie Carter.