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September 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
3. She was on the onboard the Royal Mail S. S. “Leinster” when it was torpedoed by the Germans in the Irish Channel. Only the bodies of three nurses were recovered. Teresa is mentioned on the Empire Panel in York. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
August 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
2. Teresa M. Fannin was one of a group of Voluntary Aid Detachment [VAD] Nurses, who were accompanying military patients who were returning to England. She was attached to the Scottish Women's Hospital Unit.
She died on 10th October 1918 at sea. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
August 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
1. Women of the Empire: Nurses who Joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, V.A.D.
Teresa M Fannin (Originally named as J M Fannin in error) was born about 1896, Ireland. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
August 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
July 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
3. They had only been married a few weeks before the explosion while Charles was at home recovering from wounds he suffered in France. Jane died of the munitions explosion at Leeds General Infirmary aged 20. #barnbowlasses #canarygirls #womenoftheempire
July 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
2. In 1911 Jane aged 15 lived with her family at Newtown, Pontefract, Yorkshire. In 1916 she started working at the Barnbow Munitions Factory. In the same year she married Charles H Few. #barnbowlasses #womenoftheempire
July 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
1. Continuing the series of the women and girls that were killed at Barnbow Munitions Factory, Leeds:
Jane Few (nee Handley) was born in 1896, Normanton, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of William Henry Handley and Emily Newton. #barnbowlasses #womenoftheempire
July 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
4. On 15th July 1917 Sister Florence died from appendicitis, Thessaloniki, Greece aged 40. She is buried at Salonika Anglo-French Military Cemetery. #WW1 #womenoftheempire
July 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
5. She was a highly respected nurse, and the typhus epidemic she was fighting was well-managed under her charge.
Agnes is one of 15 women remembered on the Scottish Women’s Hospital Roll of Honour. #WW1 #womenoftheempire
June 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
4. Sister Agnes Kerr Earl, a Scottish Red Cross nurse, died in Vranje, Serbia during World War I due to a septic wound from a scratch she received while dressing a patient with gangrene. The scratch became infected, and she passed away within two days. #WW1 #womenoftheempire
June 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
3. Agnes died on March 19th 1919 aged 33. Cemetery Chelu Kula Military Cemetery. Agnes was initially buried at Vranje Military Cemetery Serbia. #WW1 #womenoftheempire
June 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
2. In 1916 Agnes joined the French Red Cross Scottish Women’s Hospital American Unit (Salonica and Serbia) from December 1916 -19th March 1919.
Nursing Sister Agnes Kerr Earl was awarded The Cross of Mercy (Serbia), Silver Medal for devoted Services in War (Serbia). #WW1 #womenoftheempire
June 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
1. Nurses of The Empire who worked at the Scottish Women's Hospital WW1:
Agnes Kerr Earl was born in 1886, Townhead, Cumnock, Ayrshire. She is the daughter of William Earl and Jane Purdie. #WW1 #womenoftheempire
June 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
5. Off Crete on 30th December 1915 the Persia without warning was torpedoed, Dr. Elizabeth Stephens Impey died at sea aged 38. #WW1 #womenoftheempire
May 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
4. She sailed for Bombay in the Peninsular and Oriental liner Persia from Tilbury Docks on the 18th December, 1915. She was fully aware of the risks of a long voyage while German submarines were engaged in pursuing harmless vessels. #WW1 #womenoftheempire
May 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
3. She had a long ambition to work for the women in India. In November 1915 the opportunity came, she accepted the post of Medical Officer at the Dufferin Hospital for women in Lahore. #WW1 #womenoftheempire
May 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
2. In 1904 she began her medical training. She qualified as M.B, Ch.B., in June 1911, and soon embarked on her medical career. In the autumn of 1915, she went out to Châlons and Sermaize for the Friends’ War Victims Relief Committee and remained for six weeks. #WW1 #womenoftheempire
May 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
1. Elizabeth Stephens Impey was born in 1877, Kings Norton, Worcestershire. She was the daughter of Frederick Impey and Eleanor Clark. #WW1 #womenoftheempire
May 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
3. Caroline was killed on the 14th November 1915 when her van ran off the road and sustained a fractured skull despite being cared for died a few days later aged 48. She is buried in Skopje British Cemetery, Macedonia. #ww1 #womenoftheempire
May 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
2. Nurse Caroline joined the Scottish Women’s Hospital (British Committee French Red Cross) in Mladanovatz, Serbia from July 1915 – 1st November 1915. #ww1 #womenoftheempire
May 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
1. Caroline Macdonnell Ferrier Reid Toughill (nee Brown British subject) was born in 1865 Bengal. She was the daughter of Major Robert Brown and Marjory C Ferrier.
On 22nd December 1896 she married Francis Toughill in Belfast, Northern Ireland. #ww1 #womenoftheempire
May 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
4. The Five Sisters’ window in York Minster is dedicated as a war memorial to the women of the British Empire who lost their lives, 1914-1918. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
April 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
3. She was brought back to Birmingham and died of pneumonia on 17th December 1918 aged 26. She is buried at Holy Ascension Churchyard, Settle. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
April 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
2. In 1915 Doris joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment at 5th Northern General Hospital Leicester. Tragically she contracted septicaemia after nursing a soldier in France. #WW1 #VADnurses #womenoftheempire
April 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM