V.A.D.
Records tagged with Keywords: V.A.D.
Elizabeth McMath Warnock
Submitted by Alison McCall on 30 December 2020 - 6:30pm
Revised: 30 December 2020 - 7:01pm — Alison McCall
Other names:
She was known as Daisy
Dates:
1 Feb 1887 - 5 May 1918
Elizabeth McMath Warnock was the daughter of William and Mary Warnock. She was educated at Whitehill School, Glasgow.
She started teacher training at Jordanhill College in 1907 and, once qualified, taught at Tureen School.
She volunteered for Red Cross work and was sent to Malta in August 1915 and then to France in October 1916.She died there on 5 May 1918, of pneumonia.
Her younger brother George died in France in March 1918. They are both buried in Saint-Sever Cemetery, France.
Jane Lauder Nodwell
Submitted by Alison McCall on 30 December 2020 - 5:20pm
Revised: 30 December 2020 - 5:33pm — Alison McCall
Other names:
She was known as Janie.
Dates:
1894 - 19 Nov 1918
Jane Nodwell was the second daughter of Samuel and Janet Nodwell, of the Cross Keys Hotel, New Galloway.
She died of influenza at Yorkhill Military Hospital, Glasgow.
Margaret Isabella Kathleen Durno
Submitted by Alison McCall on 23 August 2020 - 4:46pm
Revised: 23 August 2020 - 4:55pm — Alison McCall
Dates:
1896 - 14-9-18
Margaret Isabella Kathleen Durno was born in Kemnay in 1896, the daughter of Alexander Durno and Barbara Jane Mortimer, who farmed at Leschangie.
She was working as a laundress at the Brook War Hospital, London, when she died of flu.
Her brothers James and Leslie also died in the war, and her name appears below theirs.
She is buried in a communal grave in Greenwich cemetery.
Euphemia McEwan Graham Simon
Submitted by Alison McCall on 28 December 2016 - 6:31pm
Revised: 29 December 2016 - 11:31am — Alison McCall
Other names:
She was known as Pearl.
Dates:
27 Feb 1867- 8 Feb 1945
Euphemia Simon was born in Leuchars, the third of four children of Thomas Simon, coalminer, and Margaret McEwan.
She trained as a teacher in Edinburgh, then returned to Fife to teach. She worked in the VAD during the First World War. She became headmistress of Crossroads School, Methil, and lived in the Schoolhouse.
Jane Edington McClymont
Submitted by Alison McCall on 7 July 2013 - 7:55am
Revised: 22 November 2018 - 10:06am — Alison McCall
Other names:
She was known as Jeanie
Dates:
1897 -13 February 1919
Jane McClymont was born in Kilmelford, Argyllshire, the daughter of Thomas S McClymont, coachman, and Jane S McClymont, nee Pringle. She nurse withe the Voluntary Aid Detachment during World War I. She died of influenza at the Edinburgh War Hospital, in 1919. Her home address at the time was in Dunblane.
