We often hear about the graves of British Tommies buried in cemeteries on the Western Front in WW1 but we don't often hear about the British and Commonwealth women who died serving in some capacity who are also buried there: This is just one of the cemeteries in France where you will find the graves of women who died or were killed during the First World War.
LIST OF FEMALE WW1 CASUALTIES BURIED IN WIMEREUX
COMMUNAL CEMETERY, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE - COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
CLAYTON-SWAN,
Mildred - Army Service Corps (Canteen) – Civilian
COLE, Emily
Helena – Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service – Sister
DUNCAN, Isabella
Lucy May – Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service – Sister
EVANS, Margaret
Ellen – Voluntary Aid Detachment
HOCKEY, Jessie
Olive – Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service – Reserve Sister – from
South Africa (Cape Province)
KING, Nita
Madeline – Voluntary Aid Detachment
LANCASTER, Alice
Hilda – Nurse – Special Military Probationary attached to the Territorial Force
Nursing Service*
PICKARD, Mrs
Rubie (aged 67) – Voluntary Aid Detachment – voluntary worker in the Newspaper
Department for supplying daily newspapers to British Hospitals
ST. JOHN, Barbara
Esmee – Voluntary Aid Detachment
TREVELYAN,
Armorel Kitty – Civilian in the Army Service Corps Canteen
WHITELY, Anna E.
– Canadian Army Nursing Service – Nursing Sister from Peterborough, Ontario
WILSON, Christina
Murdoch – Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service – Sister
WILSON, Myrtle
Elizabeth – Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service – Sister – Australian
from Melbourne
* The Territorial
Force Nursing Service was set up in 1909 as a sister organisation to the Queen
Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service in order to supplement the service during
emergencies. All members worked as
nurses in civilian life. In 1920
the service was re-named The Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS) when the
Territorial Force was re-named The Territorial Army. The Territorial Force Nursing Service became the Territorial
Army Branch of Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps. Source: www.forces-war-records.co.uk
and www.cwgc.com
