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Staff Nurse Cecilia Gertrude Tyson
Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nursing Serv. HMHS Syria
from:St Helens, Lancashire
My Great Aunt, Gertie Tyson enlisted in 1915 in the Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nursing Service having been a Sister at the Royal Infirmary in Hull. She served on the Hospital ships Syria and Varsover for 2 years before choosing not to re-enlist due to 'urgent family matters'. Her brother Fred had died in Belgium 8 months earlier, his body never having been found. His name is on the Menin Gate. I have a photo of Aunt Gertie on board one of the ships with some of her patients. After the war she continued her nursing career and became Matron of a hospital in Hull and after her retirement, a District nurse in Rawcliffe, near Goole.

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