Curran, Jane Simpson Annand
Personal Information
Rank | Nursing Sister |
Forename(s) | Jane Simpson Annand |
Surname | Curran |
Gender | F |
Age | |
Decorations | |
Date of Death | 04-10-1945 |
Next of Kin |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Avro Lancaster I |
Serial Number | PA278 |
Markings | -F F-Freddie |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | United Kingdom |
Burial/Memorial Place | Brookwood Memorial |
Grave Reference | Panel 22, Column 3 |
Epitaph |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 151 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 236425 |
Service | QAIMNS |
Group | 1 |
Squadron | 103 |
Trade | Passenger (Nurse) |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | Anglian Water Treatment Works, Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Stone Pillar & Plaques |
Memorial Text | Pillar : RAF Elsham Wolds, 1941-1945, For those who made the great sacrifice. Plaque :This tree is dedicated to all those who served with 103 Squadron Royal Air Force. Plaque : RAF Elsham Wolds, Opened in Summer 1941 as a bomber station in No1 group, it w |
Miscellaneous Information
Three years earlier her ship was torpedoed as she was posted out to North Africa. |
She was returning to Selonika after 28 day's leave spent with her mother in Aberdeen. Aberdeen Press and Journal 17th November 1945: "She is one of my best nurses. Whatever she did, she did it well" wrote the matron of the Selonika hospital to which she was returning to duty. |
She had trained as a nurse at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary before the war. She then took up a post at the Northern Nursing Home in Aberdeen. As war commenced in 1939, she moved to Strathacro, south of Aberdeen where a military hospital had been set up. Jane was commissioned as Nursing Sister in Queen Alexandria’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) on 13 July 1942. |
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Last Operation Information
Start Date | 04-10-1945 |
End Date | 04-10-1945 |
Takeoff Station | Glatton |
Day/Night Raid | Day |
Operation | Operation Dodge- transporting personnel to Italy |
Reason for Loss | Met with bad weather while flying at 2000' (since there was no heating or oxygen for the nurses on board) over Corsica . Radioed other aircraft to indicate F/L Taylor was turning back to Marseilles due to engine difficulties. Nothing further was heard and no wreckage was found during the subsequent air-sea rescue operation |