Bessie COLTMAN

Bessie COLTMAN. Staff Nurse. QAIMNS

Died 26 November 1918.

At rest/commemorated at Alloa (Sunnyside) Cemetery, Scotland.

Wills and Admin, Ancestry -
Bessie Coltman of 47a Ochil Street, Alloa, Scotland. Died 26 November 1918 at Lenzie. Confirmation of Jessie Coltman
Bessie COLTMAN 2ndRes/C1076. QAIMNSR. A gratuity was granted to her mother Mrs Jessie Coltman 19 August 1920

Extract from The British Journal of Nursing 14 December 1918 -
Our Roll of Honour.
Staff Nurse Bessie COLTMAN, who died recently at Lenzie, was buried with military honours at Alloa, Scotland. Miss Coltman transferred from a civilian to a military hospital at the outbreak of war, and had seen service abroad, both in East and Central Africa and in Malta. For devotion to duty, she was awarded the M.B.E. a few months ago. It is possible that she passed away from an infection contracted whilst serving her country nursing military personnel overseas.