Dora (Dorah) BERNSTEIN. Staff Sister SAMNS.
Born 1889 to Harris and Flora Bernstein of Kimberley, Cape Province.
Died of pneumonia in the South African Military Hospital at Richmond Hospital Surrey 6 November 1918
At rest in Willesden Jewish Cemetery, Middlesex.
Wills and Admin, Ancestry -
Dorah Bernstein of Johannesburg Transvaal, South Africa, spinster, died 6 November 1918 in Richmond Hospital, Surrey. Probate Pretoria to Lawrence Bernstein.
Photograph credited to -
https://www.jewsfww.uk/dorah-bernstein-1690.php
Some extracts from Richmond Herald - Saturday 16 November 1918
Death of a Military Nurse -
A valuable life has been prematurely cut short at the South African Hospital, Richmond on the 6th inst from pneumonia supervening upon influenza, of Staff Sister Dora Bernstein S.A.M.N.S. daughter of Mrs and the late Mr L. Bernstein of Hillbrow, Johannesburg. The deceased sister joined the nursing service shortly after the outbreak of the war, in September 1914 and served in the Southwest African campaign until August 1915, in the hospital at Swakopmund. From August 1915 until October 1917, she served on the hospital ship “Ebani” and after a short stay in East Africa she was transferred to the Wynberg Military Hospital. She served in England to take up duty at the South African Hospital as recently as August 21st last and was promoted to the rank of sister. In Richmond she was a general favourite among the staff and patients alike. The high esteem in which she was held was manifested at the funeral on Sunday last. The coffin, wrapped in the Union Jack was borne from the Hospital mortuary by Jewish orderlies of the S.A.M.C. through lines of nursing staff drawn up as a guard of honour and placed in an ambulance for transport to the Willesden Jewish Cemetery where the interment took place. On arrival at the cemetery the cortege was met by a military escort and firing party. After the burial the usual three volleys were fired and the “Last Post” sounded.
