241518 VAD Sophia Violet Barrett British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment (d.10th October 1918) Nurse Sophia Barrett is buried right of main path in the Kilternan Church of Ireland Churchyard, Kilternan, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
She was a casualty of the Great War, Sophia was a Voluntary Aid Detachment member through the St. John Ambulance Brigade. She was a victim of the sinking of R.M.S. Leinster. The Royal Mail Ship Leinster, owned by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, was torpedoed in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 68 miles from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.
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