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Gladstone, E M



Belgrade Cemetery
Belgrade Cemetery, Namur, Belgium

 


Five Sisters Memorial Screen in York Minster

 

 

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record

 



Sister Elsie Mabel Gladstone, Associate Royal Red Cross
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
24/01/1919


Royal Red Cross Medal

Born in India. Daughter of Cecil Ernest Gladstone (I.C.S.) and Florence Elliot Gladstone (8 Peel Terrace, St Helier, Jersey). One of only two female casualties of the Great War buried in Belgium. Resident at Fauvic, Grouville, Jersey in 1911.

Died, aged 32 years

 

“Sister Elsie M. Gladstone. QAINMS; died nursing influenza stricken troops, Namur, Jan 1919. Served in France from August 1915. Rec. RCC. Anaesthetist for the hospital train”

 

Photographs courtesy of Graham Hooper (Great Nephew)