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Saturday, 16 April 2022

Annie Elizabeth Mistrick nee Brewer (1874 – 1921) - British nurse.

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With thanks to Bryan Boots for suggesting I include Annie here and for his help  Annie Elizabeth Brewer was born in Newport, South Wales, UK...
Sunday, 3 October 2021

Louise de Bettignies (15th July 1880 – 27 September 1918) French woman who became a British Secret Agent in WW1

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With grateful thanks to Ciaran Conlan, an Irishman who has a love of WW1 and helps anyone who needs hel. Ciaran helps me a great deal with m...
Monday, 2 August 2021

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 Three nurses who lost their lives in the mysterious explosion aboard HMS “Natal on 30th December 1915 are remembered on the Chatham Memoria...
Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Edith Maud Drummond Hay R.R.C. 2nd Class 3.6.19 (1872 – 1960) – artist and WW1 volunteer

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Edith Maud Drummond Hay was born on 28th February 1872 in Kinfauns in Perthshire, Scotland. Her parents were Henry Maurice Drummond Hay, a C...

Professor Dame Ida Caroline Mann, Mrs Gye, DBE, MB, BS, PhD (Lond), MA (Oxon), MD (Hon) (WA), FRCS, FRACS, FRACO (1893 –1983)

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With grateful thanks to Alison T. McCall, genealogist, for finding this information about Ida while helping me with research into her brothe...
Friday, 22 January 2021

Winifred Buller (1884 – 1970?) – British aviation pioneer who served with the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps in WW1

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With thanks to Chris Dubbs for finding the photograph that sent me off on this voyage of discovery and to Lynne Sidaway for additional infor...
Sunday, 20 December 2020

Lydia Grant (1880 - 1917) - Australian VAD who died serving and is buried in Manchester Southern Cemetery, Manchester, UK

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 With thanks to Marjorie Earl for finding this poem about Australian WW1 VAD nurse Lydia William Falconar Grant, Elder daughter of Peter G. ...