231748 VAD Olga Gjers Voluntary Aid Detachment Yorks 42 from:Busby Hall, Northallerton Olga Gjers, born in 1895, lived at Busby Hall, a country house near Stokesley and was the daughter of Mrs Ann Gjers, Vice President of the North Riding branch of the British Red Cross Society and also Commandant of the Auxiliary Hospital at The Manor House in Stokesley, where Olga worked
as a member of Yorks 42 Voluntary Aid Detachment. Her father Lawrence was JP for Middlesbrough and the North Riding of Yorkshire, Colonel and Commandant of the North Riding National Reserve, a member of the Iron and Steel Institute, and Vice President of the Cleveland Institute of Engineers.
Her brother also named Lawrence served with the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders and lost his life at Passchendaele.
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