Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Nellie Spindler - nurse from Wakefield, Yorkshire - killed in WW1 on the Western Front

Thank you to Jonathan D'Hooghe who runs the website www.worldwar-ancestry.co.uk  Jonathan answered my request for information about Inspirational Women.  He suggested Nellie Spindler who was a British nurse of the Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service.  Nellie was killed while she was working in a Field Hospital and is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium - she is the only woman there.

French, German and Chinese graves are also in that Cemetery.

Read more about Nellie here http://www.rotaryclubieper.be/html/keith2006.php

and if you want the lyrics to Bram Vermeulen's song, which is called "Testament" and is on YouTube, you will find them here (in English):  http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlyrics%2Bto%2Btestament%2Bby%2Bbram%2Bvermeulen%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=nl&u=http://muzikum.eu/en/123-217-2611/bram-vermeulen/testament-songtekst.html&usg=ALkJrhgE5TmPj4emzNUl12_FNJvjMfBcQQ#ixzz2iT8xiTZW