Elsie Mabel GLADSTONE. Sister QAIMNSR.
Born 27 March 1886 to Cecil Ernest Gladstone (I.C.S.) and Florence Elliot Gladstone. Probationer, nurse's training Guy's Hospital, London Jun 1912 to July 1915. Enlisted July 1915
One of Only Two Female Casualties of the Great War Buried in Belgium. Died of Spanish flu, followed by pneumonia 24 January 1919 aged 32.
Her service medals issued 8 December 1922
At rest in Belgrade Cemetery CWGC Cemetery/Memorial Namur, Belgium
Commemorated on the Scotland, National War Memorial Index, on Ancestry
Awarded (RRC) Royal Red Cross June 1919
http://www.greatwarci.net/honour/jersey/database/gladstone-em-belgrade.htm
Extract from The British Journal of Nursing dated 8 February 1919.
Our Roll of Honour
Elsie Mabel GLADSTONE. On the 24th. January, at 48, C.C.S., France, of pneumonia, Elsie Mabel Gladstone, Sister Q.A.I.M.N.S.R, daughter of the late Cecil Ernest Gladstone, Bengal Civil Service, and Mrs. Gladstone, St. Heliers, Jersey.
Photograph credited to IWM
