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Brigadier Dame Cecilie Monica Johnson Golding, DBE (born 6 August 1902, London - died 6 June 1997, Bournemouth) was a British Army nurse, who rose to Colonel Commandant, Matron-in-Chief and Director of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC).[1]
She began her nursing career at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, in 1922. Three years later she relocated to Aldershot for midwifery training. Following World War II she served in India as Principal Matron, the last QAIMNS sister to serve there. In 1950 was served in Singapore as Matron for the QARANC. She retired in 1960.
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Personal life
She married Brigadier Rev. Harry Golding in 1961; they were married until his death in 1969. Golding had two daughters to whom she was stepmother.
Honours
She was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1958.[2]
Death
Dame Monica Johnson Golding died in Bournemouth on 6 June 1997, aged 94.
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