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Title: VAD red cross nurses
Post by: pete7770_9 on Friday 25 November 11 13:26 GMT (UK)

Would any one have any information on two VAD nurses i am researching. They both worked at the racecourse hospital Cheltenham during WW1. I have contacted the British red cross society for service records and i am awaiting a reply.

The nurses are Miss M McClymont Reid who was mentioned in dispatches.

Dorothy Edith Griffith-Jones who lived in Cheltenham when she died in 1962. I also have a thread open on Dorothy in the Bedfordshire section where she lived as a child. And have gaind some useful information.

Any information or photos of the nurses would be most helpful.

Title: Re: VAD red cross nurses
Post by: SWar on Friday 25 November 11 22:41 GMT (UK)

You may have already found this but there are some pictures of the hospital here:
http://www.remembering.org.uk/vad_racecourse.htm

Sue

Title: Re: VAD red cross nurses
Post by: pete7770_9 on Friday 25 November 11 22:46 GMT (UK)

Thanks Sue, I have seen the site, and its very good, this is where i found out Mary was mentioned in dispatches  :)