Winifred Eliza CARRICK

Winifred Eliza CARRICK. VAD

Born 1890 to Thomas and Annie Mary Carrick, Hexham, Northumberland.

1901-1911 with her parents and siblings at the Nook, Haydon Bridge Northumberland.
4 September 1917 – 14 June 1919 Bethnell Green Military Hospital.

Died by her own hand, jumped in front of a train on the 21 June 1919.

Wills and Admin, Ancestry -
Winifred Eliza Carrick of the Nook, Haydon Bridge Northumberland, spinster, died 21 June 1919 at or near Priory Road, Tottenham, Middlesex. Her effects went to Edith Jean Carrick and Ursula Mary Carrick, spinster.

Extract from Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 26 June 1919 -
NURSE'S SUICIDE.
Jumped in Front of Train after Measles Attack. Fear of a nervous breakdown was given as the reason for the suicide of a V.A.D. nurse named Winifred Eliza Carrick, aged 29, upon whom an inquest was held at Tottenham.
Miss Carrick, the daughter of a company promoter, who lived at Haydon Bridge Northumberland, during the war served with the V.A.D.s in France. Recently she was attached to the Bethnal Green Hospital, and a few weeks ago resigned her position, telling the matron that she feared she was going to have a nervous breakdown.
Later she developed measles, and was sent a patient to a hospital at Tottenham. She was allowed out in the grounds, and on Saturday she was seen by two children to climb over the wall of the Midland Railway embankment. When a train came along, she threw herself front of it and was killed.
A verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned.