3. She is buried at Waltonwrays Cemetery, Skipton, Yorkshire. She is commemorated on the VAD memorial panels in York Minster.
Hilda was accepted by the CWGC as a casualty of the Great War on 8th October 2018. #VADnurses #WW1 #yorkshire
2. On August 1st 1918 Nurse Hilda joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), 2nd Western General Hospital, aiding the care of wounded soldiers. She died while in service on 8th October 1918 of bronco-pneumonia, at the Alexandra Park Nursing Home, Stockton, Cheshire aged 23. #WW1 #VADnurses
2. Margaret was a nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Unit 2nd General Hospital, British Red Cross Society. She died of an illness contracted in France on 30th July 1918 aged 25. She is buried at Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France. #WW1 #VADnurses
1. Women of the Empire: Nurses who Joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, V.A.D.
Margaret Cameron Young was born in 1892, Northern Ireland. She was the daughter of Thomas Young and Amelia Cameron. #WW1 #VADnurses
3. She was on the onboard the Royal Mail S. S. “Leinster” when it was torpedoed by the Germans in the Irish Channel. Only the bodies of three nurses were recovered. Teresa is mentioned on the Empire Panel in York. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
2. Teresa M. Fannin was one of a group of Voluntary Aid Detachment [VAD] Nurses, who were accompanying military patients who were returning to England. She was attached to the Scottish Women's Hospital Unit.
She died on 10th October 1918 at sea. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
1. Women of the Empire: Nurses who Joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, V.A.D.
Teresa M Fannin (Originally named as J M Fannin in error) was born about 1896, Ireland. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
3. On 20th May 1918 she died after a long and painful illness (tuberculosis) contracted in France while nursing. Shepperdine, Oldbury on Severn. United Kingdom aged 28. She is buried at Oldbury-on-Severn, St. Arilda’s Churchyard, Gloucestershire. #WW1 #VADnurses
2. Phoebe joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment in 1915 aged 25. In 1915 she joined 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth. In 1917 she joined the Nurse V.A.D in France. #WW1 #VADnurses
1. Women of the Empire: Nurses who Joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, V.A.D.
Phoebe Elizabeth Meadows was born in 1889, Oldbury- on- Severn, Gloucestershire. She was the daughter of Charles Meadow and Phoebe Elizabeth Sansum. #WW1 #VADnurses
3. On 31st October 1918 Nurse Florence Hogg died of influenza while in service at Bennington War Hospital aged 24.
She is buried at Horsforth Cemetery, Yorkshire. #WW1 #VADnurses
2. In 1911 Florence’s occupation was a Laundry Ironer aged 16. She lived with her family at 5 Feather Bank Grove, Horsforth, Yorkshire.
On 15th July 1918 she joined (VAD) as a nurse at Berrington War Hospital, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. #WW1 #VADnurses
1. "Women of the Empire." Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurses (VAD):
Florence Hogg was born on 14th June 1894, Horsforth, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Albert Hogg and Sarah Elizabeth Hutchinson. #WW1 #VADnurses
4. The Five Sisters’ window in York Minster is dedicated as a war memorial to the women of the British Empire who lost their lives, 1914-1918. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
3. She was brought back to Birmingham and died of pneumonia on 17th December 1918 aged 26. She is buried at Holy Ascension Churchyard, Settle. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
2. In 1915 Doris joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment at 5th Northern General Hospital Leicester. Tragically she contracted septicaemia after nursing a soldier in France. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
1. "Women of the Empire." Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurses (VAD)
Doris Jane Procter was born in 1892, Settle, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of James Procter and Mary Ann Close. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
4. Catherine was aged 28. Her remains were recovered, and she was buried at Alexandria (Hadra) War Cemetery Egypt. #WW1 #VAdnurses
3. From the 10th September 1917 - 31st December 1917 she was in Egypt.
On 31st December 1917 Sister Catherine Ball drowned in the Mediterranean when the H.M.S Osmanieh was torpedoed. #WW1 #VADnurses
2. In 1911 Catherine’s occupation was a Pattern Girl aged 21, she lived with her family at 47 Blue Bell Hill, Nottingham.
In 1915 Catherine joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) 104th Nottinghamshire. Other Empire Force Nursing Sister Catherine VAD. #WW1 #VADnurses
1. "Women of the Empire." Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurses (VAD)
Catherine Ball was born on 28th August 1889, Leicester. She was the daughter of John King Ball and Catherine Goodhall. #WW1 #VADnurses
5. Daisy was aged 24 when she was killed. She is buried at Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire #neverforget
4. On the night of 30th September 1917 during an enemy air raid bombs were dropped on the hospital. Daisy along with three other nurses were killed together with 16 patients. 67 were wounded. #VADnurses #WW1 #womenoftheempire #neverforget
3. The 58th General Scottish Hospital was a base hospital mainly housed in marquees. Daisy along with her colleagues she was kept busy as a large number of poison gas cases arrived. Needing around the clock nursing. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire #neverforget
2. In 1914 at the outbreak of war she joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment becoming a VAD nurse.
Daisy arrived at the 58th General Scottish Hospital in St. Omer in the middle of June 1917. #VADnurses #WW1 #womenoftheempire #neverforget
1. Part of Women's History Month. Women of the Empire. VAD Nurses.
Daisy Kathleen Mary Coles was born in 1893, Wandsworth, London. She was the daughter of Walter Coles and Edith Juliet Rosalie Brown. In 1901 the family lived in Edinburgh, Scotland. #VADnurses #WW1 #womenoftheempire #neverforget
Derrie Edge has asked me to show you all this video called Nurses Day. They gave their lives in WWI, this was taken in her garden. Thank you Derrie for a beautiful video and allowing me to share it. #VADnurses #WWI
I have been asked by Derrie Edge to add this video clip of her Display at Armistice Day at Shell Store Munitions Factory at Rother. Was an industrial site in Hereford. Thank you Derrie for allowing me to add this video. Please do take a look. #WWi #VADnurses
3. Elizabeth joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment and was killed on 30th September 1917 age 28. Her remains were buried at Longuenesse, St. Omer Souvenir Cemetery. #VADnurses #WWI #history
