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Flossie May Govier
British Red Cross
from:3 Mona Terrace, Royal Street, Gourock, Scotland.
Flossie Govier was mentioned by the War Office for special services rendered during World War 1 as a nurse in Red Cross and VAD Hospitals, firstly at the Smithston War Hospital then at the Northumberland Auxiliary Hospital, Corbridge-on-Tyne. Her address was given as 3 Mona Terrace, Royal Street, Gourock.
The 1891 census shows that Flossie Govier was born in Wigtownshire in 1888, the eldest daughter of Albert and Anna Govier and her father was serving as a coast guard in Kildonan, Bute. In the 1901 census the family are living in Gourock and Albert is now a customs watcher.
Flossie died in 1977 at the age of 87 in Irvine, North Ayrshire.