Margaret Mary Agnes BAXTER

Margaret Mary Agnes BAXTER. (Mrs) VAD Nurse

Born May 1911, residing March 1944 at The Bungalow, Rushbrooke, Suffolk.
She married in Frank William Baxter, Royal Navy in December 1939.

Died age 32 years, an hour later in West Suffolk Hospital from injuries received in a road accident Friday afternoon 24 March 1944 near the Norman Tower, Crown Street

Wills and Admin, Ancestry -
Margaret Mary Agnes Baxter of The Bungalow, Rushbrooke, Suffolk (w/o Frank William Baxter) died 24 March 1944 at West Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.. Her effects went to her husband, officers steward R.N.

Bury Free Press - Saturday 01 April 1944 -
V.A.D. Nurse Killed
Street Fatality near Cathedral at Bury.
A tragic accident occurred on Friday afternoon to a V.A,D, nurse at the Square House, Red Cross Hospital, Bury St Edmund’s Mrs Baxter, 32 of The Bungalow, Rushbrooke, who was gravely injured when cycling near the Norman Tower, Crown Street and died an hour later in the West Suffolk Hospital. Mrs Baxter was the wife of Petty Officer Frank William Baxter.

THE ACCIDENT -
Sgt K Morrison, R.A.M.C. said about 2-30pm of Friday he was travelling in an Army 3 ton truck also Crown Street. When opposite the Norman Tower, entering the bottle neck the truck overtook a cyclist and witness (Sgt Morrison) immediately afterwards told the driver, “I think was have knocked a lady off her cycle” The driver stopped at once and they ran back to find the lady in the road with the cycle by her feet. Her injuries were very extensive.