Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw.

  • Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854-1904.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    observed tbat in those years of her life, she dis- played curiously little of the power of mind which characterized her afterwards. She was very young and childlike for her age, but tenacity of purpose became evident, for she never wavered in her wish to become a nurse. Many books on nursing were bought and studied, and when her twenty-fifth birthday came round she claimed the right to begin the training: she had lost her father two years pre- viously. In December 1879, she entered the Royal County Hospital, Winchester, as a probationer, and remained there for a year working in the Women s Surgical W^ard. Mrs. Alice Bolton, the Sister then in charge of the ward, writes (on Feb. 1, 1905) of Miss Loch:— Any one who has had experience of what raw pro- bationers are, will understand how great is the relief of receiving one so bright and capable as she was, and the enthusiasm with which she threw herself into her work. Her training was before the time of the three years certificate, and probationers were taken for one year only. But that year was indeed one of probation, and with hard work, bad food and very little time off, was a pretty severe test of any one^s powers of endurance and en- thusiasm in the work. But she went through it all pluckily, and though she must have felt the strain, did not show it. . . . She was always bright and cheerful, much beloved by her patients and quite the life of the Probationers' Room. Everything that happened, whether pleasant or unpleasant, connected with her