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066: January 2003
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31 December 1916 : Staff Nurse Kate Rosina Sturt
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Kate's parents were William Sturt (a retired Company Sergeant Major in the Royal Garrison Artillery) and Kate Jane Colebrook Sturt. Kate had a younger sister, Violet and a younger brother, Sidney. At the 1911 English census Kate was age 22 living at home and working as a machinist in a Baby Robes Factory. The following year she enrolled to b...
‘THE GIFT OF HER SORROWING PARENTS’
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The Great War still casts long shadows, even more than a hundred years on, and often in the most unexpected places. Most parish churches, for example, contain a memorial of some kind, and it’s not uncommon to be reminded that women were among the victims, and not all the deaths were caused by bombs, bullets or disease. This, for example, is the...