CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt
Special Probationer Nurse, (Military), EDITH
DOROTHY PEPPER, 83/P/481 of The Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing
Service. Edith was born in
Lincolnshire in 1893. Her parents were
William Ernest and Edith Martha Pepper, nee Cant, who lived in Manor House,
Nocton, Lincoln. Edith had a brother
called Ernest C. Pepper, who was born in 1900.
Edith died on 7th April 1918, at the age of 25. She was
buried in Cairo War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt - Grave. Reference: O. 145. https://billiongraves.com/grave/Edith-Dorothy-Pepper/6728353
EDINBURGH (WARRISTON) CEMETERY, Edinburgh, UK
MACLEAN, Driver, H F M. MACLEAN, of the Women's Legion, who
died on 7th April 1918. Grave Reference: C1. 831.
Driver, Hylda Fanny
M. Maclean, nee Green of the Women's Legion. Hylda was born was born in Foleshill,
Warwickshire, UK in 1879 to Fanny T, nee Harrison, and Eli Green, a cycle
manufacturer. Hylda had a sister,
Elizabeth M., who was born in 1876 and a brother, William H., who was born in
1870. Hylda married Norman Henry Maclean,
a Civil Serevant, in Coventry in 1900.
They had a daughter called Isabella Una, born in 1908.. Hylda, who was a despatch rider with the
Women’s Legion in WW1, died on 7th April 1918. Grave Reference: C1.
831. With grateful thanks to researcher Debbie Cameron, who has a Facebook Page - Remembering Women on the Home Front WW1 - for additional information about Hylda, who is also featured on the IWM site Lives of the First World War.
