Voluntary Aid Detachment page Alfred George Hebblethwaite Medical Personnel - Surgeon Alfred was one of ten children born to George Hirst Hebblethwaite, a wool merchant and his wife Sarah E Hebblethwaite nee Watts. He was born on 19th June 1868 and baptised on 8th September 1869 at Christ the King Church in Battyeford near Mirfield.…
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VAD Richard O. Haigh
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Richard O. Haigh Transport and Hospital Duties Richard Oastler Haigh was one of at least ten children born to William, a woollen cloth dyer and Hannah Haigh nee Mitchell, both from Huddersfield. He was born on 14th April 1879 and was baptised on Christmas Day 1882 at St. Matthew and New…
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VAD Charles Henry Allen
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Charles Henry Allen Transport of Wounded and Hospital Orderly Charles Henry Allen was the oldest of two sons of Alfred and Jane Allen. He was born on 11th May 1871 and baptised on 9th July that year in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire. [caption id="attachment_9792" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Charles Henry Allen's baptism record[/caption] His younger…
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VAD Hannah Margaret Marriott-Watson
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Hannah Margaret Marriott-Watson Nursing Member Hannah was born on the last day of the 19th Century to Frank McDonald Marriott-Watson and Florence Riviere Marriott-Watson nee Edwin, though Edwin was her stage name, her birth surname being Brown. Frank was an actor who, along with his parents and siblings, had emigrated from…
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