Emily Helena COLE
- Extended Description
- Emily Helena COLE. Sister QAIMNS. Born 1883 to Mrs. E. H. Cole, of 46, Charminster Road. Bournemouth.
Died in France 21 February 1915 aged 32.
At rest in Wimereux Communal Cemetery CWGC Pas de Calais, France
Her service medals issued 26 July 1923.
THE PASSING BELL. Dated 13 March 1915 -
We greatly regret to record the death of Miss Emily Helena Cole, of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, who died at Boulogne on February 21st, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. She was the daughter of the late C. G. Cole of Cape Town, and entered the Service as a staff nurse on January 15th 1912. She was buried in France, a memorial service being also held in the chapel of the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, which was attended by the Matron in Chief and other Matrons of the Military Nursing Service.
Her brother Captain Lionel Coles was killed on the Somme, 1916 also her sister Daisy who was serving with the VAD was also killed by enemy action in France September 1917.
Photograph credited to MilitaryHistorian Find A Grave.
