Barbara Cozens
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Brigadier Dame Florence Barbara Cozens DBE DStJ RRC (24 December 1906 – 18 July 1995) was a Darjeeling-born British nurse and nursing administrator.
She received her training and education to become a nurse at the Victoria Hospital for Children (in Chelsea) and at St Thomas' Hospital (in Stangate, Lambeth), finishing her training in 1933.[1]
She joined Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) and was posted to Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot and later to India for five years. In India, and later in Palestine and Egypt, she nursed military personnel, later returning to England. During World War II Cozens served in the UK and overseas.[2]
Nursing career
- Commandant of the Army Nursing Corps Training Centre, Aldershot (1955)
- Assistant Director of Army Nursing Services Eastern Command (1958)
- Matron-in-Chief/Director of Army Nursing Services (1960–64)
- Chief Nursing Officer to the St John Ambulance Brigade (1965–66)
- Colonel Commandant Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (1966–69)
Personal life
Never married, she retired to Canterbury, where she died in 1995, aged 88.
References
External links
- London Gazette Issue 45398 published on the 15 June 1971; page 2, Dame, Order of St John of Jerusalem - 1971 appointment
- London Gazette Issue 42870 published on the 28 December 1962, page 6, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire - 1963 appointment
Categories:
- 1906 births
- 1995 deaths
- British expatriates in India
- British nursing administrators
- Dames of the Order of St John
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Members of the Royal Red Cross
- People from Darjeeling
- Women in World War II
- Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps officers
- British Army personnel of World War II
