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17 December 1918 : Nurse Doris Procter

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Doris was the daughter of a tailor and confectioner. One of five children, she volunteered for V.A.D. service at the outbreak of war in 1914. She was called into service in May 1915. After serving for much of the war at a Military Hospital in Leicester, she caught influenza in December 1918 which developed into the pneumonia that caused he…