Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Sister. Isabel Marion Mackintosh

British Red Cross

from:Nairn, Scotland

(d.10th July 1918)

Isabel Mackintosh was a Scottish born nurse who served in France at the outbreak of war, working with the British and the French Red Cross. From 1917 she served in Bermondsey Military Hospital firstly as night superintendent and then as sister. She was known by patients and colleagues as Sister Mac. She was awarded a Red Cross decoration which was presented to her by the King on 20th of April 1918. Sadly Isabel died shortly afterwards on 10th of July 1918 of acute influenzal pneumonia. She is buried in Nairn Cemetery and is the first name on the Nairnshire War Memorial.

As she was born in Greenock we have her noted on the local website under the Unsung Heroines section.



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