Sec Ldr Elizabeth Beadsall WRNS

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Remembered today on the Great War Forum

Name: BEARDSALL, ELIZABETH

Initials: E

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Section Leader (Steward)

Regiment/Service: Women's Royal Naval Service

Age: 18

Date of Death: 18/12/1918

Service No: G/3243

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: S. 565.

Cemetery: BOSTON CEMETERY

During the First World War the port of Boston was used to a small extent by hospital ships, and more than 4,000 sick and wounded passed through it. The First World War graves are scattered throughout the cemetery. Boston Cemetery contains 50 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.

Ms Elizabeth Beardsall was one of 23 WRNSs who were lost in the Great War - see http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheets_WRNS.htm

For more information on the WRNSs of the Great War see the five page article here http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk/content/view/135/223/1/0/