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Mike
What an interesting post and what an archive! The diary pages have a real immediacy.
Best regards
IL.

A couple of more pictures I could not get to attach,,,,,,,

Mike

As IL says, what an excellent archive of materials that give a sense of Beatrice Wells.

I was fortunate to win Lot 9 this morning at Noonan's - the QSA to Margaret Elizabeth Waring - it included her M.B.E. and WWI pair to the British Red Cross & St. John Ambulance. What wasn't mentioned and what I was able to discover, was that she was Mentioned in Dispatches in 1917 - an added bonus.

I know nothing about the lady other than that she was, along with Cleghorn who used to be in Henk's collection, one of only four female members of the Camp Soldiers Homes. A Name Search of her on this site proved fruitless.

Does anyone have any info on her of her small unit? I see mention of a book by Sheila Gray and another by Norman Gooding (whose collection is being sold off today) - does anyone have these books and could, possibly, do a look-up for me?

Regards

Rory

Rory – there was a Margaret Elizabeth Waring who was born in Guernsey in 1849 where her father was Comptroller of Customs. On Ancestry she can be found on most of the census returns except 1901 & 1911 which would fit with her involvement in the ABW and then staying on in SA for a time. In 1921 she was living with her also unmarried cousin Caroline Waring in Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale.

Caroline died in 1926 and the following appeared in the Hampstead News



i.e. Spinsters into good works.

Margaret died on 11 Jan 1938 still living in Sutherland Avenue and left £9k to two Waring spinsters including Dorothy Mary mentioned in the press clipping.

This record can also be found on Ancestry:

Name Margaret Elizabeth Waring
Death Date 1938
Volume 6/9/5162
Reference 61206
Source Master's Office / Orphan Chamber, Cape Town (MOOC)
Source location Cape Town Archives Repository

However she would have been 65 at the start of the Great War.

Regards, David.