johnboy Posted 16 August , 2016 Share Posted 16 August , 2016 (edited) Feel free to add further info about her. Edited 16 August , 2016 by johnboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeClarke Posted 17 August , 2016 Share Posted 17 August , 2016 Hi On Walsall RoH and on numerous rolls around the town, Regards, Graeme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 17 August , 2016 Author Share Posted 17 August , 2016 Thanks. Was she related to the man listed above her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 17 August , 2016 Author Share Posted 17 August , 2016 Gertrude lived at 22 Foden Road Walsall. She worked at Bagthorpe Military Hospital Nottingham from 8/10/1915 untill November 1917 when she was killed on her way to Alexandria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 17 August , 2016 Share Posted 17 August , 2016 She was not a sibling of Frank. Quite possibly more distantly related. Bytheway is an uncommon name but there are quite a few across the Walsall-Lichfield area. I studied Frank in some detail many years ago, when I was compiling a history of his battalion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 17 August , 2016 Author Share Posted 17 August , 2016 Thanks Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 17 August , 2016 Author Share Posted 17 August , 2016 !911 Census shows her aged 30yrs working as an Elementary Teacher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeClarke Posted 17 August , 2016 Share Posted 17 August , 2016 Hi, Not, as Chris says, a relation, but he is interesting in himself as he is a M.C., D.C.M. May I ask your interest in Gertrude who was awarded a ‘scarlet efficiency stripe’ on Friday 28 December 1917 ?? Regards, Graeme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 17 August , 2016 Author Share Posted 17 August , 2016 (edited) No specific interest in her. I came across some pics and thought they might be of use to others with an interest in nurses. Nice to flesh out the bones. More pics will be posted in due course. Edited 17 August , 2016 by johnboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolt968 Posted 17 August , 2016 Share Posted 17 August , 2016 There is an interesting entry in the National Schools' Admission Registers & Log Books in FMP. Queen Mary's High School for Girls, Walsall. Parent: George Bytheway, Accountant; 31 Lysways Street. Previous school: Misses Fletcher III (form?) Entered '93 iv Left. '94. Pupil Teacher, Walsall Sch[ool] B[oar]d V.A.D. 1914-1917 Torpedoed and drowned, Mediterranean. Does anyone know if there was/is a war memorial for Queen Mary's High School? There might be something in the register of teachers (if I can remember which site it is on). Roger M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEW Posted 17 August , 2016 Share Posted 17 August , 2016 VAD Bytheway's drowning mentioned in BJN and names the other 7 nurses. TEW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeClarke Posted 17 August , 2016 Share Posted 17 August , 2016 Hi There is a memorial in QMS School, but it covers the Boys School. She is not recorded on this memorial. She is on the Walsall Roh, the Corporation roll of honour at Walsall Town Hall, the memorial at St. Andrew’s Church, Birchills and on the roll of honour at St. Paul’s Church, Walsall. Graeme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 17 August , 2016 Author Share Posted 17 August , 2016 Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w6okey Posted 26 December , 2016 Share Posted 26 December , 2016 On 8/17/2016 at 09:16, johnboy said: Thanks Chris Her VAD Card http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War/Card?sname=bytheway&id=34664 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 10 October , 2019 Share Posted 10 October , 2019 Gertrude was born on 23 October 1880 and was my husband's great aunt (one of the two sisters of his grandmother, Dorothy). The Staffordshire Advertiser for 3 June 1920 carries an account of the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Gertrude on 28 May 1920. The unveiling was conducted by the County Director of the Red Cross Society, Colonel W A Wetherall. It was placed in the Palfrey Schools, where Gertrude taught before volunteering in the VAD. Interestingly, her sister, Effie, was teaching at the Palfrey Schools at that time, and had been doing so since 1899 (according to her registration with the Teachers Registration Council). That summer term (1920) was her last term there before she took up a post as a Head Mistress at St Peter's C of E school in Walsall. To what extent did Effie have a role in the memorial? Gertrude also features in Walsall's Black Country Living Museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 12 October , 2019 Share Posted 12 October , 2019 Very interesting. Thank you for posting this information, LongfordLady. It is always nice to learn of such family connections, which emphasise the impact of the war in a more personal way. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeClarke Posted 12 October , 2019 Share Posted 12 October , 2019 (edited) Morning, Can I ask, how does she feature in "Walsall's Black Country Living Museum" and is the Palfrey School memorial still in existence ?? Regards Graeme Edited 12 October , 2019 by GraemeClarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolt968 Posted 12 October , 2019 Share Posted 12 October , 2019 Indeed, thank you Longfordlady. It is good to get the extra information. RM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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