The British Schools Museum
41 - 42, Queen Street
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
SG4 9TS
To coincide with that exhibition, I went through the Commonwealth War Graves Commission List of Female Casualties of the First World War looking for Hertfordshire links, with
the following results:
ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY)
MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt
ROSKELL, Nurse, GERTRUDE LUCINDA, 5540. 17th Gen. Hosp.,
Voluntary Aid Detachment. Died of appendicitis, 31 October 1915. Age 38.
Daughter of John Burrow Roskell and Gertrude Roskell, of Cronkley, Knebworth,
Herts. Grave Reference: Q. 538.
CHELA KULA MILITARY
CEMETERY, NIS, Serbia
POPE, Nursing Sister, CICELY MARY LEIGH. Voluntary Aid
Detachment. 25 June 1921. Age 31. Daughter of Frances A. Pope, of 12A,
Kensington Mansions, Earls Court, London, and the late Rev. W. A. Pope. Born at
Redbourn, Herts. Grave Reference: C. 2.
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
(HEATH LANE) CEMETERY, Hertfordshire
HARROLD, Worker, (Waitress), HELEN CHARLOTTE, 50021. Queen
Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. 29 October 1918. Grave Reference: YB. 46.
LANGLEYBURY (ST.
PAUL) CHURCHYARD, Hertfordshire
HUDSON, Member, FRANCES LOUISA, 18072. No. 4 Stores Depot,
Women's Royal Air Force. Died of sickness, 19 February 1919. Age 22. Daughter
of Arthur and C. M. Hudson, of 2, Brookside, Hunton Bridge, King's Langley,
Herts.
ST. ALBANS (HATFIELD
ROAD) CEMETERY, Hertfordshire
CHADWICK, Nurse, HILDA. Voluntary Aid Detachment. 2 November
1918. Grave Reference: Mil. I. 5.
DAY, Member, CHARLOTTE ANNIE, 24165. R.A.F. Records
(Blandford), Women's Royal Air Force. Died of pneumonia, 30 November 1918.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Day, of St. Albans. Grave Reference: E. I. 25.
I wonder if any of those graves receive visitors?