Sunday 18 August 2019

Commonwealth War Graves Commission seek relatives of WW1 VAD Ada Jones who died on duty in 1918

Historian Debbie Cameron has just posted this on her wonderful Facebook Page Remembering British Women in WW1 - the Home Front and Overseas
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1468972083412699/?fref=nf

Ada Jones WW1 Red Cross Record Card
Ada Jones – WW1 VAD nurse from Florence, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent

Worked at Knighton VAD Hospital, Evington, Leicester from 10.01.1918 – 26.11. 1918 died of Pneumonia on service. Ada was apparently buried in Longton Cemetery, Spring Garden Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST3 2QS

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission continue to this day to erect headstones for those who fell in war. They are looking for relatives so that they can attend a dedication.  Unusually there is a WW1 VAD among newly granted headstones. I found the record card and cause of her death . It seems a headstone is being erected at long last. RIP. Ada Jones who died serving her country in the Great War.

https://www.cwgc.org/…/32/appeal-for-relatives---august-2019


Please spread the word in the hopes that we may find relatives of Ada Jones.