Ethel Prescott Ditchfield

Dates: 
1878 - 28 Dec 1908.

Ethel Prescott Ditchfield was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1878, the youngest daughter of George and Susan Ditchfield.

She married Alfred James Ogston, the son of Professor Alexander Ogston, in Birkenhead in 1905.

Alfred Ogston was a British Vice-Consul in Italy. The couple's home address was 282 Union Street, Aberdeen.

Ethel Prescott was one of an estimated 123,000 victims of the 1908 earthquake and tsunami at Messina, Italy. She, her husband and their daughter escaped from the building they were in through a window, but she was struck and killed by a falling balcony. She is buried in Messina.