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  • Birth: Croydon Vol 2a P263

  • Residence

  • Residence: Student Boarder At Technical School

  • Job: Student Of Midwifery

  • Job: Missionary Work

  • Title: For Nursing A Belgian Government Official

  • Title: MBE

  • Arrival: With Sister Ethel Missionaries In British South Africa

  • Departure: "Balmoral Castle" Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd

  • Medical

  • Death: Vol 5b P611

  • Job

  • Story: Wikipedia Entry

    <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><font size="3">Wikipedia Entry: </font></span></strong></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p><font size="3"><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">Constance Watney</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">, M.B.E., C.O.C., S.R.N., M.B.C.N., was a British born missionary nurse in <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none">Uganda</span>.</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><font size="3">Constance Watney was born in 1878 in </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Beddington</font></span><font size="3">, Surrey. She was the fourth daughter of Norman Watney of </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Westerham</font></span><font size="3">, Kent, son of </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">James Watney</font></span><font size="3"> the brewer.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><font size="3">Early in life Constance dedicated herself to missionary work, and for this purpose trained as a nurse at </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">St Bartholomew&#39;s Hospital</font></span><font size="3">. In 1906 she went as a student of midwifery to </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Clapham Maternity Hospital</font></span><font size="3"> and took her CMB Examination.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><span><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 12pt">Missionary Work in Uganda</span></span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><font size="3">In 1908 Constance was accepted by the </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Church Missionary Society</font></span><font size="3"> (C.M.S.) and sent out to </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Kampala</font></span><font size="3">, </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Uganda</font></span><font size="3">, where she worked in the </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Mengo Hospital</font></span><font size="3"> under Dr., later Sir, </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Albert Ruskin Cook</font></span><font size="3">. Mengo Hospital is on </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Namirembe hill</font></span><font size="3"> in Kampala.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><font size="3">In 1918 Mengo hospital, in addition to its missionary work, served as a base hospital for the fighting in </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">East Africa</font></span><font size="3">, and for her share of the very heavy work &ldquo; Sister Connie,&rdquo; as she was called, received the </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">MBE</font></span><font size="3">.</font><sup><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="2">[1]</font></span></sup></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><font size="3">For nursing an official of the Belgian Government, Sister Connie was awarded the very rare honour of </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Croix de l&rsquo;Ordre de la Couranne</font></span><font size="3"> (Seventh Class).</font><sup><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="2">[2]</font></span></sup></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><font size="3">In May 1921 Constance Watney joined Dr Algie Stanley Smith (who had been brought up by Constance&#39;s maiden aunts, Alice and Emily </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Watney</font></span><font size="3"> in South Croydon after the death of his mother when he was a young teenager</font><sup><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="2">[3]</font></span></sup><font size="3">) and Dr Len Sharp at </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Kabale</font></span><font size="3">, in south west Uganda where&nbsp;a new beginning was made for missionary work into </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Ruanda</font></span><font size="3">, in Belgian territory. She helped to start a hospital under very difficult conditions and they were able to receive the first patient in June 1922.</font><sup><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="2">[4]</font></span></sup></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><span><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 12pt">Invalided Home</span></span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><font size="3">In 1923 Sister Connie contracted a very severe form of </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Bright&#39;s Disease</font></span><font size="3"> and was invalided home, never to return. She was told her life must henceforth be that of an invalid, but her heart was too much in nursing to give it up, and she went back to </font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="3">Clapham</font></span><font size="3">, where she had received her maternity training, and worked in various capacities there under Dr. Annie McCall until the hospital was bombed in 1940.</font><sup><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none"><font size="2">[5]</font></span></sup></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">Constance</span><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"> died on November 23, 1947.</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><span><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 12pt">References</span></span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><ol><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-ss: list 36.0pt"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 11pt">Supplement to the London Gazette, 4 October 1918. www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30935/supplements/11777/page.pdf</span></li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-ss: list 36.0pt"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 11pt">The British Journal of Nursing, Dec 7 1918</span></li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-ss: list 36.0pt"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 11pt">www.emmanuelcroydon.org.uk/resources/Newslink_2009_Summer.pdf</span></li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-ss: list 36.0pt"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 11pt">Osborn, H.H. (1991) Fire in the Hills. Highland Books</span></li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-ss: list 36.0pt"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 11pt">Obituary in &lsquo;The British Journal of Nursing&rsquo; January 1948</span></li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></ol><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font> <!-- SN:TREESUI03 -->

  • Story: CONNIE's OBITUARY

    <strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4"><strong><font face="Courier New" size="1"><font face="Courier New" size="1"><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">From JANUARY, </font><font face="Arial" size="3"><font face="Arial" size="3"><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">1948</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The British Journal of Nursing</font></font></p></font></font><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">&nbsp;Miss CONSTANCE WATNEY,</font></p></strong></font><p align="left"><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">M.B.E., C.O.C., S.R.N., M.B.C.N.</font></p></font></font></strong><p align="left"><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">Miss Constance Watney, M.R.E., C.O.C., S.R.N., M.B.C.N., </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand"><font size="4">who died </font><font size="4">on November 23rd, 1947, was the fourth daughter of the&nbsp;&nbsp;late Norman Watney of Westerham. Early in life she </font></font><font face="comic sans ms,sand"><font size="4">dedicated herself to missionary work, and for this purpose trained </font><font size="4">as a nurse at St. Bartholomew&rsquo;s Hospital. </font></font></p><p align="left"><font face="comic sans ms,sand"><font size="4">In 1906</font><font size="4"> </font></font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">she went as a student of midwifery to Clapham Maternity Hospital and took her C.M.B. Examination. </font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand"><font size="4">In 1908 she </font><font size="4">was accepted by C.M.S. and sent out to Kampala, Uganda, </font></font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">where she worked in the Mayo Hospital under Dr., later </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">Sir, Albert Coolr. </font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">In 1918 this hospital, in addition to its </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">missionary work, served as a base hospital for the fighting </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">in East Africa, and for her share of the very heavy work</font><font face="comic sans ms,sand"><font size="4">&ldquo; Sister Connie,&rdquo; as she was called, received the M.B.E.</font><font size="4">&nbsp;</font></font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand"><font size="4">&nbsp;</font></font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">About 1920 a new beginning was made for missionary work </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand"><font size="4">in Ruanda, </font><font size="4">in Belgian territory, and Sister Connie volunteered</font><font size="4"> </font></font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">for that pioneering venture, helping to start </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">a </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">hospital under very difficult conditions in Kigezi under </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">Dr. A. Spencer Smith. For nursing an official of the </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">Belgian Government, she was awarded the very rare </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">honour of Croix de I&rsquo;Ordre de 1a:Couronne; but in 1923 </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">she contracted a very severe form of Bright&lsquo;s Disease and </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">was invalided home, never to return. </font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">She was told her </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand"><font size="4">life must henceforth be that of </font><font size="4">an </font><font size="4">invalid, but her heart was </font></font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">too much in nursing to give it up, and she went back to </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">Clapham, where she had received her maternity training, </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">and worked in various capacities there under Dr. Annie </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">McCall until the hospital was bombed in 1940. Since that </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand"><font size="4">date, she had devoted herself to </font><font size="4">Dr. </font><font size="4">McCall. </font></font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">Her colleagues in the British </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">College of Nurses, Ltd., are indeed </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">proud to have been associated with </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">Miss Watney, whose self sacrifice </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">and devotion to duty knew no</font> <font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">bounds.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">We can ill afford to:bid farewell </font><font face="comic sans ms,sand"><font size="4">to two such outstanding members </font><font size="4">of </font></font><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4">our noble profession.</font></p>

  • Story: Connie Watney's Obituary

 
 
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