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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...
Friday, 29 March 2024

Muriel Perry (1899 - ?) - British VAD

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Muriel Perry, WW1 Born Muriel Haidée Perry, on about 5th March 1899, when the First World War began, Muriel founded the Sailors’ and Soldier...
Saturday, 21 October 2023

Sofia Flora Skipwith, OBE (1855 – 1940) – WW1 VAD who founded an Auxiliary Hospital in her home Loversall Hall, Yorkshire

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Sofia Flora Cooke Yarborough was born on 18th November 1855 in Middlesex, England, UK. Her parents were Charles C. Yarborough, a retired Bri...

Julia Warde-Aldam MBE, ARRC (1857 - 1931) – opened her house as an Auxiliary Hospital, serving as Commandant and Matron

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Sarah Julia Warde was born in Carleton, near Pontefract, Yorkshire, UK in early 1857.  Her parents were Revd. William Warde, an Anglican Chu...
Thursday, 17 August 2023

Lady Edmond Talbot (1859–1938)

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With thanks to Chris Warren for contacting me and sending me copies of his two WW1-related books  Born Lady Mary Bertie, daughter of the Ear...
Thursday, 25 May 2023

Lady Sybil de Vere Brassey (1858 - 1934) – British Suffragette

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Sybil de Vere Capell was born on 29th November 1858 at 2 Lyall Street, Belgrave Square, London, UK.   Her parents were Arthur de Vere Capell...