- Extended Description
- Annie COX. Staff Nurse 9/Nurses C/201 TFNS. 2nd Western General Hospital, High Street, Manchester.
Born 20 November 1882 at Ballyglass Ireland to John and Bridget Cox, nee Murray and sister of Miss Teresa Cox, Leitrim Road, Carrick-on-Shannon, County. Leitrim.
Irish 1901 census - aged 19 and residing with her widowed mother and two brothers Patrick and Francis at 04 Ballyglass, Cloontuskert, Roscommon
1911 her mother and two of her brothers were residing at 14 Ballyglass, Cloontuskert, Roscommon
Died at her home 06 February 1919 aged 31 from influenza encephalitis.
A gratuity was granted on the 15 October 1919 to her mother.
At rest in St. Beo-Aedh's Old Graveyard, Ardcarne, County Roscommon, Ireland. South-East part of old ground.
Commemorated on the nurse’s memorial in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast
Some notes from her service record. Her records consist mainly relating to her death and a small amount about her military life -
She joined the TFNS 16 May 1915, and was posted to 2nd Western General Hospital, High Street, Manchester.
Date not recorded she went on leave to her home and while there fell ill.
Her mother wrote a letter to the Matron of her hospital about various things and in one passage she wrote. “She was attended by Major Wild RAMC. She arrived at home practically to die as she went to bed the next day from which she never rose and died 06 February 1919. She was buried 08 February 1919”
