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Friday, 11 October 2024

Jessie Scorgie, ARRC - WW1 Nurse

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With thanks to Historian Lawrence Taylor for the following information  Jessie Scorgie served as a Nurse in the Scottish Women's Hospita...
Monday, 7 October 2024

The five Gladstone sisters and their mother, WW1

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Information posted Liz (Janet) Tobin almost ready to decamp from X via Twitter  Five sisters and their mother who were all born in India.:  ...
Saturday, 5 October 2024

Helena Maria Paderewska (1856 – 1934) – Polish founder of The Polish White Cross during WW1

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With thanks to Professor Margaret Stetz for finding Helena for us  Helena Maria von Rosen was born on 1st August 1856 in Warsaw. Her parents...
Thursday, 26 September 2024

The Hush WAACs of the First World War

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Found on Twitter from Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry The first women in uniform ever posted to the front line during the First Wo...
Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Kate Manley, OBE (1866 – 1945)

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Born in Bridport, Dorset, UK in 1866, Kate Manley became the UK Ministry of Food’s Chief Culinary Scientist in 1917.   In November 1917, Kat...
Sunday, 19 May 2024

Vesta Tilley - stage name of Matilda Alice Powles (1864 - 1952) – British music hall star - one of the best-known male impersonators of her era.

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With thanks to John Daniel for this information  Matilda Alice Powles was born in Worcester on 13th May 1864. She was the second child of th...
Sunday, 28 April 2024

The Hewins Sisters in WW1 – Dorothy Hewins (1894 – 1949) and Margaret Nancy Hewins (1902 – 1978) - self-published authors of ‘Lest We Forget: Being Some Account of the Smaller Incidents in the Great War’.

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 With thanks to Historian Debbie Cameron* for posting a portrait of Nurse Dorothy Hewins in WW1 on her Facebook Group Remembering British Wo...