BWH Nurses

Agnes Mary Witts gave her next of kin as a Mrs W B Taylor from Cheshire. We have searched on Ancestry.com but can no firm evidence of her birth, marriage or death. We do however have her service record from The National Archives.

Anne Campbell Gibson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. In 1881 she enrolled at The Nightingale Fund Nurses’ Training School at St Thomas’ Hospital in London.

This story was brought to us by Patsie Smith who was researching her grandmother. She discovered that Elsie Withington had been a nurse at The Beaufort and had met her husband there, William Tattersall, who was serving in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

Elizabeth Horridge was born in Sheffield in February 1886. She trained at the North Derbyshire Hospital and worked at Jessop Hospital for Women and the General Infirmary, Stoke on Trent, where she was a Sister of a surgical ward.

Hilda Newport was born in Melbourne, Australia. She came over to the UK in 1910 and was a staff nurse at the Middlesex Hospital in London.

Kate Underwood was one of thirteen children from an Oxfordshire family. She was adopted by the Underwood family when she was six years old. During the First World War she worked in a field hospital before becoming matron of The Beaufort War Hospital from 1916-1918.

Marion Dunn was used to life in an institution. The 1881 census records her parents as attendants at Exeter Asylum, and by 1878 Marion was working there too