Jessie Emily WAKEFIELD. Nursing Sister 9 Nurses/W230 TFNS. 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge.
Born 1880 to Richard and Emily Wakefield, of Maidstone, Kent. 1881 with her parents at 59 Lower Stone Street, Maidstone. 1891 with parents at 57 and 59 Lower Stone Street. 1901 at Holmville, Wrotham Road, Gravesend, Kent. This may have been a nurses home. 1911 residing at 27 Mote Road, Maidstone, Kent.
Awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal 24 October 1917 and decorated with the medal Saturday 20 April 1918
She died 7 February 1919 of septicaemia, complicated by meningitis at 24 General Hospital, Etaples 7 February 1919 aged 39. Her father was granted a war gratuity 27 March 1920.
At rest in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
Notes from her service record
She joined up and was posted to 1st Eastern General Hospital 11 August 1914
Awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal 24 October 1917 and decorated with the medal Saturday 20 April 1918 before going to France.
She was posted for overseas duty from 1st Eastern General Hospital.
embarking 28 May 1918 and was attached for duty at 56 General Hospital Etaples known as Southern General Hospital, France
11 July 1918 she was admitted to 30 General Hospital suffering with bronchitis and later discharged fit for duty at 56 General Hospital.
She died 7 February 1919 of septicaemia, complicated by meningitis at 24 General Hospital, Etaples 7 February 1919
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