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I have sent photographs of E.F. Shaw's plaque at St Paul's Church. Let me know if you would like them with a higher resolution.

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Myrtle, not yet received. To others - here is my latest requirements

 

United Kingdom

ABERDEENSHIRE, Kirton, Peterhead

ANGLESEY, Maeshyfryd
ARGYLLSHIRE, Appin

BERKSHIRE, Sulham St. Nicholas

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, Radclive

CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Caldecote

CARDIGANSHIRE, Lampeter

CARMARTHENSHIRE, Abergwili

CARNARVONSHIRE, Phwllheli

CHESHIRE, Altrincham, Ashton-upon-Mersey, Sale

CORNWALL, Falmouth

DENBIGHSHIRE, Gwersyllt, Gwyddelwern

DERBYSHIRE, Linton, Ockbrook, Shirebrook, Taxal, Whaley Thorns
DEVONSHIRE, Plymouth

DURHAM, Chester-le-Street, (for Hartlepool see below under Yorkshire), Pelton

ESSEX, East Ham

FIFESHIRE, St. Andrews

GLAMORGANSHIRE, Crynant, Llandough, Llantwit Major, Southerdown, Swansea, Ystalyfera,

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Berkeley, Oldbury on Severn

GWYNEDD, Boduan, Llanbedrog, New Quay, Pwllheli
HAMPSHIRE, Alverstoke, Curdridge, Southampton (Hollybrook Memorial)

HERTFORDSHIRE - Aldbury, Essendon, Welwyn

HUNTINGDONSHIRE, Kimbolton

IRELAND, NORTH, Co. Antrim (Belfast), Co. Down (Bangor), Co. Leinster (Kenagh), Co. Londonderry (Coleraine, Dunboe, Londonderry), Co. Tyrone (Edenderry, Minterburn - when Emily Gray's CWGC headstone installed)

ISLE OF MAN, Marown

KENT, Ashford, Beckenham, Crayford, Gillingham, Swanscombe, Tunbridge Wells

LANCASHIRE, Ainsdale, Ashton in Makerfield, Blackburn, Bolton, Chadderton, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Eccles, Liverpool (Kirkdale), Pendlebury, Sale, Walkden, Westhoughton, Wigan

LINCOLNSHIRE, Billinghay, Blyton, Kirton in Lindsay, Lincoln, Mumby, Sausthorpe, Whaplode Drove, Willoughby
LONDON/MIDDLESEX, Abney Park, Acton (unmarked plot), Camberwell, Camden, East Ham, East Sheen, Frierns Barnet, Greenwich, Hampstead, Hampton, Harrow, Havering (Romford), Highgate (including unmarked plot), Islington (unmarked plot), Kensal Green, Kensington, Lewisham, Norwood x 2, Nunhead, Plaistow, St. Pancras, Wandsworth (Earlsfield), West Ham, Willesden, Woolwich

LOTHIAN Edinburgh, Loanhead

MONMOUTHSHIRE, Abersychan

NORFOLK, Sheringham

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, Duston
NORTHUMBERLAND, Haydon Bridge

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, Cuckney, Nottingham
OXFORDSHIRE, Oxford

PERTHSHIRE, Dunblane
SHROPSHIRE, Edgmond
STAFFORDSHIRE, Burton-upon-Trent, Chasetown, Lichfield, Ocker Hill, Ogley Hay, Tettenhall, Tipton, Uttoxeter, West Bromwich

SUFFOLK, Kessingland, Ipswich, Lowestoft, Rushmere
SURREY, Bramley, Brookwood, Burgh Heath, Chiddingfold, Guildford, Kingswood
SUSSEX, Arlington, Bexhill-on-Sea, Eastbourne, Horsham
THE ORKNEYS, Isle of Hoy

WARWICKSHIRE, Smethwick
WILTSHIRE, Chippenham (2)

YORKSHIRE, Altofts, Barnsley, Eston, Harrogate, Hartlepool, Low Moor, Redcar, Scarborough, Sheffield, South Anston, Staithes, Wakefield

WORLD
ARMENIA, Erivan
AUSTRALIA, Western Australia (Albany, Denmark x 2), New South Wales (Kogarah, Manley, Millthorpe, Milton x 2, Rockwood, Rookwood, Waverley x 2), South Australia (Terowie), Tasmania (Holbart), Victoria (Langley, Swanwater)
BELGIUM, Brussels, Froyennes,
CANADA, Alberta (Edmonton), New Brunswick (Sackville), Newfoundland (B
rigus), Nova Scotia (12), Ontario (Brantford, London, Paris), Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown, Souris), Quebec (Gatineau, Hull)

EGYPT, Alexandria

FRANCE, Chaumont, Estaires (2), Ecrouves (Muerthe-et-Moselle), Gironde, Hemévez (Normandy), Lamalou, Le Havre, Mentone, Mouleydier (Dordogne), Pys, Saint Amand les Aux, Sallanches
GUAM

INDIA, Bombay (3), Chennai, Deolali, Peshewar, Quetta, Trimulgherry
IRAQ, Amara, Baghdad (2), Basra (3)
IRELAND, Co. Clare (Ennistymon), Co. Donegal (Letterkenny), Dublin (Deansgrange, Drumcondra, Glasnevin and Dublin), Co. Limerick,
ITALY, Bordighera
MACEDONIA, Skopje
MALAWI, Blantyre

PAKISTAN, Karachi, Rawlpindi

POLAND, Warsaw
SERBIA, Belgrade, Kragujevac
SIBERIA, Tomsk

SRI LANKA, Kanatte

U.S.A. California (Fairfield, Pacheco, Redlands, San Andreas), Colorado (Pueblo, Wheat Ridge), Columbia, District of (Washington x 2), Harvard, Connecticut (Windsor), Illinois (Beardstown, Cairo, Evanston, Marion, Shelby County), Indiana (Argos, Farmersburg, Lafayette, Lebanon, Livonia, Roanoke), Iowa (Ames, Anamosa, Davenport), Kansas (Peabody), Massachusetts (Boston x 2, Foxborough), Mississippi (Natchez), Missouri (Jefferson City), New Jersey (Cresskill, Swedesboro, Trenton), New York (Bellevue, Brooklyn, Oneonta, Poughkeepsie, Rockland, Suffern), Ohio (Kent,), Pennsylvania (Allentown, Bedford, Fallsington, Newtown, Philadelphia, Pottstown, Reading, Ridgway, Rockledge, Scranton, Tamaqua, Wilkes-Barr), Texas (El Campo, San Antonio), Virginia (Fredericksburg), Washington (Washington), West Virginia (Clarksburg), Wisconsin (Superior)

 

off - London (Knightsbridge), Nottinghamshire (Gotham, Misterton, North Collingham), Oxfordshire (Tetsworth), Surrey (Wallington), Yorkshire (Redcar)

on - Aberdeenshire (Kirton), Berkshire (Sulham St. Nicholas), Cheshire (Altrincham), Derbyshire (Ockbrook), Durham (Pelton), Fifeshire (St. Andrews), Glamorganshire (Llantwit Major), Kent (Gillingham, Tunbridge Wells), Lancashire (Blackburn, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Sale, Westhoughton, Wigan), London (East Ham, Frierns Barnet, Greenwich, Havering, Kensal Green, Kensington, Lewisham, Nunhead, Woolwich), Lothian (Loanhead), Nottinghamshire (Nottingham), Staffordshire (Burton-upon-Trent), Suffolk (Ipswich), Surrey (Wallington), Yorkshire (Altofts, Eston, Low Moor, Staithes, Wakefield), Australia (New South Wales, Manley), Ireland, Co. Clare (Ennistymon)

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Sorry not sure where to find start but we're in Notts - what are we looking for Cuckney / Gotham / Misterton / North Collingham?

 

Barbara

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Myrtle - thank you. Now safely received.

 

BarbaraG - I need the following :-

 

CUCKNEY -  Ciceley EADY, munition worker, died 20/11/17. She is buried in Cuckney churchyard. I am informed that her grave may not have a headstone. Worth looking for if one is not found it will be still useful for me to know.

 

GOTHAM - Louie E. CHAPLIN and Fanny TAYLOR, munition workers, died 1/7/18. Their name is on a wooden memorial above an altar at the south east of the nave in St. Lawrence Church, Gotham.

 

MISTERTON - Catherine (Kitty) Hannah JOLLANDS, nurse, died 8/7/15. She is buried in plot J.9 in Haxey Road Cemetery, Misterton. Photo of grave required. Her sister, Agnes, died in 1923 and her parents in the 1930s. All four are buried alongside each other so should be easy to find (Mark and Mary Jane Jollands occupy plot J8, Catherine is in plot J9 and Agnes Annie Jollands is in plot J10).

 

NORTH COLLINGHAM - Kate MILLNS, VAD, died November 1918. Buried in All Saint's Churchyard, North Collingham.

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You have probably seen this but...googled Sheffield Nightingales - SHEFFIELD DURING THE WAR 

sheffieldhistory.co.uk - post from Feb 5 2009 (bottom of page 1)

 

Agnes Annie (Nan) JOLLANDS & Catherine (Kitty) Hannah JOLLANDS

 

Several photographs & Obit.

 

Barbara

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2 hours ago, BarbaraG said:

You have probably seen this but...googled Sheffield Nightingales - SHEFFIELD DURING THE WAR 

sheffieldhistory.co.uk - post from Feb 5 2009 (bottom of page 1)

 

Agnes Annie (Nan) JOLLANDS & Catherine (Kitty) Hannah JOLLANDS

 

Several photographs & Obit.

 

Barbara

 

Yes, I have seen this and also have the photographs which came to me directly from their great cousin. Thank you for pointing the site out, though.

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On ‎08‎/‎05‎/‎2016 at 13:00, Jim Strawbridge said:

Peter,

SHERINGHAM

All Saint's Churchyard, Mary Ann WEST, munition worker, buried 5th March 1915, aged 16.

RUSHMERE

St. Andrew's Churchyard, Renira Clementina CHAVALLIER, VAD, died 16th February 1919.

A check of local war memorials may also yield names.

 

Just letting you know you're not forgotten.

 

Re Mary Ann West at Upper Sheringham. I previously posted:-

 

With regards to Mary Ann West, I do have a likely match from the baptismal records and subsequent census entries, which gives me several possibilities for on whose headstone she might potentially be remembered if she doesn't have one of her own and where. Unfortunately by the time Mary Ann West, born 1st January 1899, was baptised at Sheringham Primitive Baptist Chapel on the 2nd April 1899, her father, William Christmas West, a Fisherman, was dead. Up until then the family lived at Beeston Regis, (which now is pretty much joined up with Sheringham). Her mother, Beatrice Saul Christabel West and two sisters moved in with a widow, Elizabeth Gray, at Victoria House, Cromer Road, Sheringham by the time of the 1901 census.

The relationship of both Beatrice and her three daughters to Elizabeth is given as niece - I'll try and get to the bottom of that if it turns out I've got the right person. Mother Beatrice BTW, was originally from London.

It looks like Beatrice remarried in 1902, to a George James Fox, but both then disappear. Mary Ann and one of her sisters was still living with Elizabeth Gray at the same address on the 1911 census.

Before I run out there, I'll see if I can track down a contemporary newspaper account of the funeral, as she could equally well be buried at Beeston Regis or in the Civic Cemetery and I just didn't notice,

 

Well I went  to the Country Archive and checked the local paper, the Eastern Daily Press, for 14 days after the 5th March 1915 and found no reference to Mary. One caveat - pre-War the EDP was printed at a number of locations, each with a local slant. The County Archive has the Norwich Edition, which is noticeably light on North Norfolk news. I've been unable to find out if the local editions continued but I suspect they were never archived.

 

I visited Upper Sheringham earlier in the summer and went up and down the Cemetery. As usual there were illegible headstones, low kerbstone plot surrounds that were overgrown and the inevitable conservation area. There was no obvious match for Mary. On my way back I noticed what appeared to be a slight mound of grass and moss had a dip in the middle where grass cuttings had accumulated. Clearing that I found there was actually a fallen headstone underneath and the only word visible was "Saul". I eased the turf aside and was able to confirm it was the headstone of Mary's mother Beatrice Saul who had died in 1903. The uncovered dedication read, "In memoriam, Elizabeth Gray, who died March 23rd 1913 (?), aged 65 years, also Beatrice Saul Christobel, Niece of the above and the beloved of William Christmas West who died July 6th 1903(?), aged 54 years. Peace Perfect, Peace."

 

Below that, which was about half way down the stone, everything was covered in moss. I tried easing that away but it just started taking the headstone covering with it and had to stop, so I can't really tell if Mary is referenced there, I planning to go back late autumn when the moss may have died back and the conservation area is less overgrown so I can check out the hidden headstones but I'm not holding out much hope.

 

Sorry I can be clear about the years but this was at the end of the line in both cases and the impact of being underground had taken its toll. However if they are correct then raises the question of who organised the return of Marys' body in 1915.

 

I visited Rushmere last week but unfortunately the wrong one - as they say, to fail to prepare is to prepare to fail :-)

I went to Rushmere near Lowestoft, where the church is St Michaels and there are definitely no Chavallier's buried there. I was blissfully unaware that there is also a Rushmere near Ipswich where the church is St Andrew. Sorry but I may not be heading that way for several months.

 

Finally, do you already have Violet Elizabeth Davey, Member of the Royal Air Force, who died on the 13th March 1919 and is buried at St Mary Churchyard, North Elmham, Norfolk, below a CWGC pattern headstone. She is also listed on the Church War Memorial as Died on Service.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2803002/DAVEY, VIOLET ELIZABETH

 

regards,

Peter

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Thank you for this full report and your looking for the grave of Mary Ann West in Sheringham. You might well have found her grave although the headstone is too weathered to tell. A few observations about the inscription. Elizabeth Gray did indeed die on the 23rd May 1913. The surname of Beatrice was Fox  at the time that she died but the marriage had lasted only months so perhaps leaving the surname off altogether was appropriate on a Gray family stone. Then comes some confusion. It looks like William Christmas West died 6th July 1903 but in fact this was another Mary Ann West (aged 55) who died in Sheringham on that date. I am having problems in finding the death registration of William Christmas West and perhaps he either died at sea or his death was made up and he divorced Beatrice so that she could remarry. For a moment I wondered if the two Mary Ann West's were muddled so went back to my source. Mine died in Dartford in the first quarter 1915. This would make sense as she probably worked at the Vickers munition works there. We also know that she was born in 1899 to William and Beatrice so we suspect that she was named after a her aunt (Mary Ann West) who was buried in the grave that you found. More researching by me when I can find time. My summation so far is that Elizabeth Gray was aunt to sisters Mary Ann West and Beatrice Fox and that my Mary Ann West was therefore Elizabeth's great niece.

ps. I have the Violet Davey grave and church memorial. One of the ones that I managed to get to.

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2 hours ago, Jim Strawbridge said:

. Then comes some confusion. It looks like William Christmas West died 6th July 1903 but in fact this was another Mary Ann West (aged 55) who died in Sheringham on that date. I am having problems in finding the death registration of William Christmas West and perhaps he either died at sea or his death was made up and he divorced Beatrice so that she could remarry. For a moment I wondered if the two Mary Ann West's were muddled so went back to my source. Mine died in Dartford in the first quarter 1915. This would make sense as she probably worked at the Vickers munition works there. We also know that she was born in 1899 to William and Beatrice so we suspect that she was named after a her aunt (Mary Ann West) who was buried in the grave that you found.

 

ps. I have the Violet Davey grave and church memorial. One of the ones that I managed to get to.

 

I wouldn't be 100% confident that the Beatrice Saul Christabel West or Fox who is listed on the headstone was 54 or that she died in 1903 - the headstone had suffered badly. The death of a Beatrice Saul C Fox, aged 34, was recorded in the July to September quarter, (Q3), of 1902 in the Erpingham District of Norfolk. (Erpingham District included Sheringham at that time).

 

For the baptisms in the Methodist Chapel of their other children, her first husband William Christmas West was recorded as a Fisherman. This includes Gertrude Olga West born 1st September 1896 and baptised 23rd November 1896. Its only for Mary Ann West, born 1st January 1899, baptised April 2nd 1899 is he described as deceased. Allowing for "human biology" that probably puts his death as between March 1898 and March 1899. Divorces pre-1920 were incredibly difficult and expensive to get and the Upper Sheringham churchyard has a high number of memorials to fisherman lost at sea, not all of whom were recovered. So it can probably be taken as read that he was lost at sea. He will only be recorded in the death register if his body was recovered. (Edit - just had another thought.) The 1899 Probate calendar records that William Christmas West of Beeston Regis, Norfolk, fisherman, died

off the coast of Norfolk, 28th February 1899. Probate was granted at the Norwich court on the 28th April 1899 to Christabel Saul Christobell West, widow. His effects were valued at £809 15s.

 

BTW - did you have to chase livestock away to get your picture of Violet Daveys headstone :-) I came across it when visiting North Elmham last weekend,

 

regards,

Peter 

 

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PRC.  A good bit of detective there in working out the death date of William. The recent release of the Probate Registers has been a great help in this case. I don't recall chasing livestock away. The worst case I saw of this was caused by rabbits in Haynes (St. Mary's) Churchyard (Bedfordshire) where numerous burrows were undermining (literally) a number of the graves there.

 

AnthW.  My requirements from Hartlepool generally relate to the casualties suffered in the bombardment by the Germans in 1914. I know the names of the casualties but in most cases not where they are buried. What I know that I need are the following :-

 

HARRIS, Etta Grace  . A small brass plaque with her name on it, originally displayed in the Henry Smith Grammar School, is now in the Hartlepool Record Office following the demolishing of the school in the 1980s. In addition, her name is on the municipal memorial, Hartlepool.

Mary Ernestine NISSEN.  Funeral was held at St. Aiden's Church so likely to have been buried there. 

 

(Strange that I know the names of almost all of the women who died in the bombardment but sparse as to where they were interred).

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Jim, I am able to confirm that Louisa Chamberlain is not interred in Lyness Naval Cemetery, having seen the list of names collated off the gravestones there.

 

I do have a photograph of the memorial stone to her and the others who died on that occasion, if you would like it (I no longer have your e-mail to hand here, however).

 

sJ

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Jane,  Thank you for looking. Most grateful. I think that you have confirmed to me that there was no body recovery and perhaps nothing to recover. If it the Isle of Hoy Memorial then I already have a photograph of it but thank you for the offer and the getting back to me. I hope that you and yours are well, Jim.

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Jim

 

I should be able to do these in the next week - ten days.

SURREY: Burgh Heath, Kingswood, Wallington. Please PM details if this is still okay.

 

Will

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3 hours ago, Jim Strawbridge said:

Jane,  Thank you for looking. Most grateful. I think that you have confirmed to me that there was no body recovery and perhaps nothing to recover. If it the Isle of Hoy Memorial then I already have a photograph of it but thank you for the offer and the getting back to me. I hope that you and yours are well, Jim.

Very well thank you Jim!

 

Here is a small version of the picture in case you decide you would like a full-size one.

 

sJ

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I can do Oxfordshire.

Let me know what you need.

 

Cheers,

SMJ

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On 17/09/2016 at 11:35, sjustice said:

I can do Oxfordshire.

Let me know what you need.

 

Cheers,

SMJ

 

Hello SMJ, These are my Oxfordshire wants.

 

OXFORD - Violet Isabel Hamilton MOBERLY, VAD, is buried in Christ Church Cathedral churchyard. It is believed that the cemetery may be "private" and used by clergy and their family only. Violet was the daughter of the Rev. R.C. Moberly and qualified. A kind soul was going to look into getting a photograph of her grave but I have heard nothing more. I am sure that a word with someone there would be able to gain access. I am not even sure if the cemetery is a private one but I can see it on Google Earth.

 

TETSWORTH - the name of Lilian Griffin, TFNS, should be on the war memorial there.

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Hello SMJ, These are my Oxfordshire wants.

 

OXFORD - Violet Isabel Hamilton MOBERLY, VAD, is buried in Christ Church Cathedral churchyard. It is believed that the cemetery may be "private" and used by clergy and their family only. Violet was the daughter of the Rev. R.C. Moberly and qualified. A kind soul was going to look into getting a photograph of her grave but I have heard nothing more. I am sure that a word with someone there would be able to gain access. I am not even sure if the cemetery is a private one but I can see it on Google Earth.

 

TETSWORTH - the name of Lilian Griffin, TFNS, should be on the war memorial there.

 

No worries. Leave it with me.

 

Cheers,

Simon

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Very pretty memorial site at Tetsworth, Oxfordshire.

Includes the inscription for Sister Griffin, TFNS

 

Tetsworth_Griffin_SMJ_GWF-1.jpg

Hi-Res copies sent to Jim.

 

Cheers,

SMJ

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Jim,

 

A little project of my own has seen me going through local newspapers for September and October 1916 at the Norfolk County Archive. There were a few women mentioned that might come within what you're looking for, (apologies if you know of them already).

 

(1) Eastern Daily Press, Thursday September 21st 1916

FALL INTO BOILING DYE

 

YARMOUTH GIRL’S TRAGIC DEATH

 

A WAR WORK SACRIFICE

 

An inquest was held at Yarmouth yesterday, upon the body of Millie Violet Barber, single, aged 20, of Row 123, employed at the Silk Factory, who fell into a vat of boiling dye, and died at the Hospital from her injuries.

 

John Wheatley, dye-house manager at the factory said deceased was a dyer’s labourer. On Thursday, September 7th, about 5.30 p.m., witness was in the passage leading to the dye-house and saw deceased skimming a vat, 9 ft. long by 2 ¾ ft. wide, and 2 ft. 9 in. deep, which was full of hot dye. The dye-house was floored with blue Staffordshire bricks. The girls working in it wore clogs, which were tipped with steel at the toes and heels. Witness had notified the Factory Inspector of the accident. It was the first accident in the dye-house in the last six years.. The vat stood 2 ½ ft. above the floor. Deceased lifted the scum from the dye with a flat strainer.

 

Hester Sarah Harmer, Row 61, said deceased was leaning over the vat to skim it when her feet slipped, and she fell forward, her head resting on the opposite edge of the vat, which prevented her going in bodily. Witness called for assistance and pulled deceased from the vat. She was badly scalded, but dressings were immediately applied and she was taken to the Hospital. The floor was slippery for clogs sometimes owing to the liquid on it. Witness thought deceased was extending to her full reach when her foot slipped, and she made a grab to save herself, but could not recover.

 

Mr. Frank Farrell, managing director, said there were two wooden uprights in the vat, which a girl could hold if she chose. It was difficult to understand why the accident happened. There was formerly a concrete floor, but this was taken up for the sake of safety and a new one put down in August of corrugated bricks. Deceased was one of several girls who had taken the place of men in order to release them for the Army. The chief lady factory inspector in England had been to see what work were doing in place of men, and she saw the dyehouse and was perfectly satisfied with its arrangements. The directors much regretted this accident, and desired him to offer their sympathy to deceased’s parents and relatives. Deceased had been getting on well with the work, and he believed she liked it.

 

Dr. D. Stuart, house surgeon, said deceased was brought to the Hospital, and found to be extensively scalded about her neck, the right side of her face, chest, back, and arms. Everything possible was done for her, and she lingered till Tuesday, when death took place from shock and exhaustion.

 

A verdict of “Accidental death” was returned, and the foreman said no blame attached to anyone at the factory, where every precaution had been taken.

 

A juror said he understood deceased was to have been married next week.

 

(I suspect she is buried at Great Yarmouth)

 

(2) Eastern Daily Press, Wednesday September 27th 1916

 

THE LATE SISTER ALICE GUY

 

Miss Guy, who worked until recently at the Norfolk War Hospital, has just died on active service abroad, where she was working with the Girton and Newnham Unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospital under Dr. McIlroy. She arrived in Salonika on August 5th, and died on Sunday, August 20th, of dysentery. Some of her impressions of camp life have been published in the “Nursing Mirror.”

 

In a letter home she wrote:-

“Camp life is very rough, but everyone here appears to love it. It is so strange to see everything managed by women. I have a tent of twenty-two beds, and find plenty to do. The patients are mostly French and Serbs, but they are quite nice.

 

Salonika is such a dirty place and I find it very hot. It is a funny climate, cold in the morning and evening, and the rest of the time very hot. Last Monday it rained, and simply poured down. There are no flowers in this camp. Plenty of animals, a very noisy donkey, some miserable-looking dogs and cats, and several little Greek children. I am glad to say I am well.”

 

Later Sister Guy was sent with three other nurses, two woman orderlies, and a woman motor driver to work on the fringe of the fighting line. It was here that she died.

 

(No further information as to any memorial other than the one in York Minster).

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4955932

https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/morrison_0.pdf

The Medal Index Card Catalogue Entry at the National Archive shows her as Alice A Guy, French Red Cross.

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D6081953

 

(3) Eastern Daily Press, Monday October 23rd 1916

 

Sad death of Miss Burton Fanning.

Fatally burned at Cambridge.

 

Miss Burton Fanning, daughter of Major Burton Fanning, of Norwich, has met her death at Cambridge, where she has been acting as a V.A.D. nurse at the 1st Eastern General Hospital, at which her father is a medical officer. She was quartered at Selwyn College and sitting over the fire in her room on Thursday evening, a spark set fire to her dressing gown, and she received burns from which she died.

 

(There is much more as there is coverage of the Coroners inquest)

 

Her full name is not given in the article, but the GRO Index of deaths for England and Wales lists a Beris S F Burton-Fanning, aged 22, who died in Q4 of 1916 in the Cambridge District.

 

I also have a high level access to a list of Cambridgeshire Burials which has a Berry Selina Frances Burtonfanning, aged 22, who died in 1916.

 

A picture of her, (captioned "died as a result of an accident on duty"), is held by the Imperial War Museum.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205380314

While looking for more on her I came across a reference to two other nurses who died in the Royal College of Nursing Archive - Grace Margaret Marley and Barbara Esmee St John.,

http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME057-1916/page356-volume57-28thoctober1916.pdf

 

Finally, I was also looking up something in April 1917 and came across this in passing:-

 

(4) Eastern Daily Press, Monday April 2nd 1917

 

Military Funeral for Beccles Lady

 

The funeral of Mrs.Napier Trollope, of Beccles, took place on Saturday with evidences of deep sympathy. This body had been conveyed to the parish church the previous evening, and there the 39th Psalm was read by the Rev. W.S.Andrew, the Rev. A.Coates (rector of Barsham) reading the lesson. The coffin, covered with the Union Jack, was conveyed to the cemetery on a gun carriage drawn by six horses, members of the V.A.D and Red Cross nurses acting as Pall Bearers. The deceased lady was deeply interested in the welfare of the soldiers, and was a nurse at the Beccles Red Cross Hospital. As an act of courtesy a detachment of the Denbighs attended the funeral and fired three volleys over the grave. Four buglers sounded the "Last Post", as the soldiers presented arms. Lieut. Deane was in command of the detachment. The grave was beautifully lined with yew, narcissi, crocuses and primulas. The inscription on the brass breastplate on the coffin read, "Jessie Sarah Trollope, fell asleep March 28th, 1917, aged 54 years. R.I.P." The floral tributes were very numerous.

 

The Imperial War Museum also has a picture of Jessie Trollope, "who died of pneumonia contracted from a patient".

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205381352

 

(Most likely location is Beccles Cemetery)

 

I can have a look for 1 and 4 if you're interested,

 

regards,

Peter

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Peter, Thank you for bringing these newspaper articles to my attention. Very helpful and very useful. All four ladies are in my Register.

 

1) Millie Violet Barber is the biggest surprise. I have her as Mildred Barber and whom, according to the York Minster panels, was a munition worker. Obviously the same woman but what working in a dye-house has to do with munitions I have no idea. Her father was a railway signalman at Stoke by Clare Entire, West Suffolk.

2) Alice Guy is well known to me. Her father was a pork butcher and farmer in Newport, South Wales. The CWGC had her as Alice Annie Grey in error but this has now been corrected. She is buried in Salonika.

3) Beris Burton Fanning. A sad way to go. Her father was a physician who championed the cause of using sanitoriums for the treatment of tuberculosis. Her brotherm Capt. Newall Burton Fanning, R.M.L.I. was also a casualty.

4) Jessie Trollope. The article describes the funeral but seems to fail to mention the location.

 

I am still searching for the burial places of 1), 3), and 4) so any further information that you find would be helpful.,

Edited by Jim Strawbridge
error - I had shown her as Marber in one place.
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