231750 Commandant. Ann Gatenby Gjers British Red Cross from:Busby Hall, Northallerton Ann Gjers was the wife of Lawrence Gjers, JP for Middlesbrough and the North Riding of Yorkshire, Colonel and Commandant of the North Riding National Reserve.
Her father Issac Fidler was an alderman in Middlesbrough and had laid the foundation stone of Middlesbrough’s new town hall on 24th October 1883 when he was Mayor.
was Vice President of the North Riding branch of the British Red Cross Society and Commandant of the Red Cross Hospital, set up at the Manor House in Stokesley, where she worked alongside her daughter Olga.
She later was awarded the OBE. Her son Lawrence was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme.
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