The following names are from a Wooden Roll of Honour which at the time of this photograph was taken was situated in the Hospital Chapel, of the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary. This hospital is now closed. Part of the hospital has been knocked down. I have not been able to find out if the chapel is still there, or what has happened to the memorial, etc..
COULTER, Joan, Sister 231746, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Services
Born 30 April 1918 to William and Ada Lily Coulter, nee Critchlow. Parents married St Bartholomew Norton-in-the-Moors, Staffordshire
Died at sea 7th December 1942 aboard S.S. Ceramic when the ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-515. Commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey
DANIELS, Frances Magdalene, Civilian died 23rd November 1940 aged 40. S.R.N. of 324 Chester Road, Streetly, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. Daughter of Ernest Daniels of 10. Bridge Street, Stratford on Avon. She died at The Woodlands Hospital, Bristol Road, Birmingham. Buried at Birmingham Cemetery
DARLINGTON, Irene Elizabeth. Nursing Sister Malayan Nursing Service. Born 9 May 1906 in Coleraine to Reginald John and Martha Darlington, nee Marrion of Brook Street, Coleraine, County Londonderry . 1911 she was residing with her grandparents William and Elizabeth Marrion at Wolverhampton House, Hutchinson Square, Douglas, Isle of Man. She embarked aged 33 on the 29 August 1939 from Plymouth bound for Singapore on ship, Diomed. He last residence in England was c/o Mrs Dawson, 17 Derby Road, Douglas, Isle of Man. Died at sea on the sinking of S.S. Tandjong Pinand 17 February 1942. Commemorated in a Book of Remembrance in St George’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey, London
Wills and Admin, Ancestry.
She at Ca-Na-Da. Wincoat Drive, South Benfleet, Essex, spinster. Died on the 14 February 1942 at Pompong Island Rhio Archipelago. Her effects went to Franklin John Darlington, postman.
MEHAFFEY, Elizabeth Jane, Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Services on ship H.M.S Cormorant II Shore Base, Gibraltar. She was killed on a flight back to her base in Gibraltar18th July 1943 aged 36. Daughter of John and Margaret of Strabane, Northern Ireland. Commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.
VIGGARS, Benjamin. Corporal 10601628, 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment, attached to 43rd Reconnaissance Corps, Royal Armoured Corps, killed 12th February 1945 aged 24. Son of Benjamin and Gladys Emma Viggars and husband of Eva May Viggars of Broom, Warwickshire. Buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Germany.
