by Rachael Rowe | May 8, 2025 | People, Nurses Stories, Stories
Many nurses worked at Barts and Hill End Hospital when services were evacuated in World War Two. Sadly, six nurses from Barts Hospital were killed in the Second World War and are remembered on the memorial window in St Bartholomew the Less Church. To commemorate the... by Rachael Rowe | Apr 1, 2025 | People, Nurses Stories, Stories
Sister Elizabeth Biggs was a Barts nurse and one of the first nursing staff to help with the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.In early April 1945, Allied troops entered Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp and found horrific scenes. Many... by Rachael Rowe | Feb 17, 2025 | Nurses Stories, People, Stories
The Barts League of Nurses was saddened to hear of the recent death of Kath Sims nee Fowler at the grand age of 107. Kath qualified as a nurse in 1940 and remembers swotting for exams with the Battle of Britain raging overhead. However, Kath wrote about her long life... by Rachael Rowe | Feb 8, 2025 | People, All News, Nurses Stories, Stories
“I remember the eeriness of the scene above ground as I walked from my bus to Bart’s Hospital. There were so many emergency vehicles but almost total silence.” Jennifer Osman Fifty years ago, on February 28, 1975, a catastrophic underground train... by Rachael Rowe | Jan 17, 2025 | People, All News
Many Barts League nurses will recall the beautiful wood engraving of Night Duty, which was reproduced into note cards and the cover image for Barts Nurses Remember. Very sadly, the artist, Simon Brett, died on December 29th 2024. Simon’s artwork gave so much... by Rachael Rowe | Aug 5, 2024 | People
Rosemary Anne Whitney (née Waldron), late of Greenwich and Bognor Regis, died on the 15th of July, aged 89.Anne was born in Greenwich in 1934. She spent the war years in Gloucestershire, and finished her education at a convent boarding school in East Sussex.She...
