Sunday 3 June 2018

Alice Hilda Lancaster, Special Military Probationer Nurse, TFNS - died 3rd June 1918

Remembering Nurse ALICE HILDA LANCASTER, a Special Military Probationer with the Territorial Force Nursing Service, who served in France during WW1.  Alice drowned whilst bathing on 3rd  June 1918 at the age  of 35. Alice was the youngest of five children born to Thomas Lancaster and his wife Alice Halliley Lancaster (nee Milner) of The Cliffe, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, Yorkshire.  She was buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France - Grave Reference: IV. A. 2. 

Alice is also remembered on a Memorial tablet in St Paul's Church Monk Bretton, in the Memorial book in St Paul's Church, Monk Bretton, on the War Memorial, Cross Street, Monk Bretton and on her mother's gravestone in Monk Bretton Cemetery

Photo of Alice’s grave from http://barnsleysoldiersww1.blogspot.com/2013/12/alice-hilda-lancaster-1883-1918.html

Original Source:  Commonwealth War Graves Commission List of Female Casualties of the First World War