Driver Amyl Jennie Field

Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day   Voluntary Ambulance Driver Early life: Amyl Jennie Field was born on on April 20th, 1886 at Wakefield. Her parents were Henry Field and Kate Field née Turner and they had her baptised on May 7th of that year at All Saints Church in Wakefield. Amyl’s father was … Read more

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Margaret Burwin

Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day   YMCA Volunteer. Served overseas. Early life: Margaret was born on March 11, 1869 and her birth was registered in Keighley by her parents Joseph and Margaret Ann Scaife née Carr. Her father Joseph was a heald and reed maker. She was baptised Margaret Ann Scaife at St … Read more

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Nurse Susan Creek

Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day   Nursing Sister, St John Ambulance Brigade. Voluntary Aid Detachment. Early life: Susan was born Susan Wells Morfett in Cambridgeshire in 1856. Little is known of her early life, but we know she married Tom Hare Creek of Oakworth in 1875. The banns were read out here at … Read more

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