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Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Book Review: "An English Governess in the Great War: The Secret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp"

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I have commemorated the First World War for as long as I can remember because Grandfather was an Old Contemptible, but I never realised be...
Sunday, 13 August 2017

Gladys Corfield Hughes (1888 - 1918) - British Nurse

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Gladys was born in Shropshire, UK in 1888. Her parents were Thomas Hughes, a grocer and farmer and his wife Martha Titley Hughes, nee Corf...
Friday, 4 August 2017

Some of the women who died or were killed while serving in some capacity during 1917

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WOMEN WHO DIED OR WERE KILLED IN 1917 The following women are not listed on the CWGC List of Female Casualties of WW1 - I know there will...
Saturday, 29 July 2017

Review: "Nurses of Passchendaele Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918" by Christine Hallett

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Christine Hallett puts her wealth of experience as a trained nurse, historian and professor of nursing to very good use in this fantastic ...
Saturday, 22 July 2017

Margaret Ellen Evans (1877 - 1917) - British VAD

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Kitty Armorel Trevelyan has been in the news lately.   Another woman of WW1 buried in the same Cemetery as Kitty – Wimereux Communal Cemete...
Saturday, 15 July 2017

Florence Missouri Caton (1876 - 1917) - Nurse

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Remembering Nursing Sister FLORENCE MISSOURI CATON, of the Scottish Women's Hospital, who was attached to the Serbian Army.   Florence...
Saturday, 8 July 2017

Dorothy Willis, nee Hart (1894 – 1916) and Sarah Frances Ruby Hart (1900 – 1919) - British women who died serving in WW1

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Dorothy and Sarah Hart were sisters. Their parents were Geroge W. Hart, a florist, and his wife, Mildred Ann, nee Garnar.   The Hart child...