Mollie EVERSHED. Nursing Sister (Lieutenant) 306582 QAIMNSR. attached to S.S Hospital Ship, Amsterdam. Awarded the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct.
Born 15 August 1915 to Reginald Avery and Thora Margaret Evershed, of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
1939 Nursing at North Hertfordshire and South Bedfordshire Hospital, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, occupation, staff nurse.
She died along with Dorothy Anyta Field on HMHS "Amsterdam". during the Normandy Landing aged 29. They were the only 2 British nurses to lose their lives. They perished while tending 75 wounded soldiers from another sinking, when Amsterdam on its third journey back to UK carrying casualties struck a mine of Juno Beach 07 August 1944, she was aged 29.
London Gazette dated 29 December 1944 -
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the publication of the names of the undermentioned as having been posthumously commended for brave conduct.
Sister Miss Dorothy Anyta Field (206151) Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service.
Sister Miss Mollie Evershed (306582) Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve.
Commemorated on the Bayeux Memorial, France.
Wills and Admin, Ancestry -
Mollie Evershed of 04 Owers Terrace, Bridge Street, Soham, Cambridgeshire, spinster on date stated. Her effects went to her mother,
Photograph credited to British Normandy Memorial.org
