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Ellen Mariana Booker

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Ellen Mariana BOOKER. Commandant VAD died 22 February 1917

Ellen ‘Nellie’ Mariana Booker

Born Southerndown ?

Secretary then Commandant, VAD, 1909 - 1917

Nellie Booker was the sixth daughter of Caroline Booker . With her mother and sister Etta she established the Southerndown branch of the Red Cross Society.

Died February 1917, Southerndown

At the outbreak of war she was the Secretary of the Tuscar House Hospital, and later became its Commandant. Unusually she was given a military funeral: ‘a unique honour for a lady’ (Glamorgan Gazette). Her Red Cross record card does not survive.

Photograph credited to Women, Wales and War
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