Crumpsall Infirmary Memorial

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Crumpsall Infirmary Memorial

Situated at the North Manchester Hospital, Manchester, England (Formerly Crupmsall Infrmary)
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This tablet was erected in Honoured Memory of the following members of the nursing staff who died during the Great War 1914-1919

Frances Mary Hall - Active Service India
Louisa Jordan - Active service Serbia


I believe the following three staff members died during the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919

Elizabeth Owen
Ethel Milicent Davies
Eva Hammond
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I believe this may be the Frances Mary Hall mentioned above

Matron Frances Mary hall QAIMNS aged 45, died 7 july 1919 awarded the royal red cross medal and mentioned in despatches
name commemorated in the India Gate in Delhi
Delhi Memorial (India Gate) face 23 - name of Frances Mary HALL, QAIMNS
 
It would appear that Louisa Jordan (died from typhus in 1915, in Serbia)

This February, Kragujevac, a city in central Serbia, marked a hundred years since the death of Dr Elizabeth Ross and other members of the British medical missions who lost their lives while aiding the Serbian people in the Great War. The annual ceremony was attended by the ambassadors of the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, numerous dignitaries and local people.

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http://www.ebritic.com/?p=478863


Miss Louisa Jordan, who went out to Serbia with the Scottish Women’s Hospital, has, we regret to say, succumbed to typhus fever at Kragujevatz. Miss Jordan, who was trained and subsequently held the position of Sister at the Crumpsall Infirmary, Manchester, volunteered to nurse Dr. Ross when he was struck down by typhus, and so contracted it herself. when she volunteered in December for service in Serbia She was working as a Queen’s Nurse at Buckhaven, Fifeshire.

taken from the British Nursing Journal
http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME054-1915/page237-volume54-20thmarch1915.pdf

Louisa Jordan was born in Maryhill in Glasgow. She signed up with the SWH as a nurse in December 1914 and joined the 1st Serbian unit. She worked in Kragujevac and died of typhus. She is buried at Nis, Serbia. Further details can be found on Alan Cumming’s website at www.scottishwomenshospitals.co.uk

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Despite the work load Louisa wrote in her diary “we are quite a happy family” the early days generally seemed to be easy going.

Amazing courage
 

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