WW1 local nurses

The Red Cross have just made available the letters A to F of a data base of Nurses and other ladies helping in World War 1.

The list of names of the first batch of Audlem Ladies recorded by the Red Cross as helping in WW1 is below. Any comments from readers welcome!

I have noted that two of them went to London and one then is going to Cologne after the end of the war.

The photo is not of local nurses – it's a library shot

The search for Audlem produced the following:

Nursing

Miss Hetty Forbes Adam of Hankelow Ct., age 20, 3rd London Gen Hosp Wandsworth.
also Miss Hester Cotton of the Vicarage, " "
Misses Charlotte and Emily Baker of the Cedars, Cheerbrook Hosp. Stapeley
Miss Sissie Bennion of Gorsecroft, The Dowery Auxiliary Military Hosp.
Miss Isabelle Brampton school teacher, the Dowery on Saturdays
Miss Nellie Etches of Sunnyside Paddock lane, at The Dowery
Miss Violet Etches Regular Nursing staff The royal Salop Infirmary Shrewsbury
Mrs Dorothy Forbes Adam of Hankelow Ct, Quarter master's asst. Nurse, Cook

Other

Mrs Richmal Baker of Hillside, Cook at The Dowery 180 hrs
Miss Hetty Forbes Adam was Quartermaster's asst

Audlem Work Party

Audlem Work Party 4056 met weekly on a Tuesday afternoon and was founded a week after the war began on 11th August 1914:
Mrs Bacon of The Grange, 150 hrs
Miss Emily Baker of The Cedars – knitting and cutting out, 650 hrs
Mrs Richmal Baker of Hillside, 600hrs
Miss Richmal Baker of Hillside 450 hrs
Mrs Annie Bamford, Audlem, 400 hrs
Miss Boffey of Sandy Lane, 150 hrs
Miss Isabella Brampton 250 hrs
Mrs Annie Burton of Laurel Grove, 250 hrs
Mrs Edith Cadman of Holmwood, Hankelow Rd., needlework and knitting
Miss Cheeseman of the Elms, formerly at a canteen in Llandudno, 250hrs
Mrs Jessie Cotton of the Vicarage, 450 hrs
Mrs Davies of Kynsall, 170 hrs
Miss Dykes of Stafford St., 600 hrs and helped to fundraise.
Mrs Jane Etches of Sunnyside, Paddock Lane, 300 hrs

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