Constance Mary Hodges was born in Liverpool in 1876. At that time, Liverpool was in the county of Lancashire. Her parents were James Hodges and his wife
Sarah Margaret Hodges, nee Kent.
Constance had a sister, Maria M., born in 1861. In 1881, the family were living in West Derby,
Lancashire. By 1891, James had died and
Sarah and her daughters were living in Tranmere, Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire.
Constance joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment Joint War Committee in WW1. She died on 23rd June 1917 at the age of 41 and was
buried in. Ocklynge Cemetery in Eastbourne.
The inscription on her gravestone reads:
‘In proud and loving memory of Constance Mary Hodges who on June 23rd
1917 gave her life for the wounded soldiers she nursed so devotedly’.
