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Remembered Today:

Elizabeth Thomson, V.A.D., att. B.R.C.


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Found the photo below in our local newspaper of the time. If anyone would like a higher resolution version for their records please get in touch with an email address. Also, if there is any further information on the bombing it would be good to hear from you. Although I do not have them to hand at the moment, I will be able (at some point in the future) to get copies of the article reporting her death and a subsequent piece (poem) that was written about her on her death (and published below the photo).

Hope this is of interest to someone,

Stuart

CWGC:

Name:THOMSON, ELIZABETH

Rank:Nursing Member

Regiment:Voluntary Aid Detachment

Unit Text:58th General Hospital

Secondary Regiment:British Red Cross Society

Date of Death:30/09/1917

Cemetery:LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY 

Grave/Memorial Reference:VI. B. 2.

Local Roll of Honour:

Thomson, V.A.D. Nursing Member Elizabeth, St. John Street, Creetown. Enlisted March, 1916, in No. 16 Kirkcudbright. Served in 58 Scottish General Hospital, St. Omar (sic). Mentioned in despatches. Killed 30th September, 1917, by bomb from enemy aircraft.

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TD60,

Thank you very much - I wasn't expecting that! Just goes to show all the information that forum members must have out there.

Cheers,

Stuart

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