Isobel Addy TATE

TATE Isobel Addy. MD, Medical Officer, (Doctor) Serbian Relief Fund attached to Royal Army Medical Corps, tending the sick and wounded at the Valletta Military Hospital, Malta She died from congestion of the brain due to typhoid fever at Victoria Junction, Sliema, Malta on the 28th January 1917. She was born on the 1st May 1874 in Tartaraghan, County Armagh. Studied at Queen's College, Belfast. In 1915 she joined The Serbian Relief Fund, in a unit set up by Mabel Anne St Clair Stobart, known as the Third Serbian Relief Unit. The Serbian Relief Fund was one of number of humanitarian initiatives trying to alleviate the serious medical problems in this part of the Balkans. She returned to England and worked at Graylingwell Hospital, near Chichester, which was formerly and asylum, but it was requisitioned to serve as a Military Hospital. In the spring of 1915 it handled casualties from the Western Front, brought back to England for treatment. She then volunteered for service with the Royal Army Medical Corps and embarked for Malta on the 24th August 1916. Her first hospital was Military Hospital, St Pau'ls, then Valletta Hospital were most of the casualties came from Gallipoli and Salonika. In early 1917 Isobel was in charge of the Bacteriological Unit in the Valletta Military Hospital, which was her last post. She died of typhoid fever. She lived at Ruskerry, Donegall Park, Belfast, Ireland, a spinster, died at Victoria Junction, Sliema, Malta. Her effects went to Isabella Tate, widow. Her parents were John and Isabella nee Cherry.

At rest in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Plot XXIX Grave 03

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