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Staff Nurse Mary Elizabeth Wills
British Army Territorial Force Nursing Service
from:Jarrow
(d.30th Mar 1918)
Mary Elizabeth Wills, Staff Nurse, served in the Territorial Force Nursing Service and died age 33 on the 30th March 1918. She is remembered at St. Paul's Church and is buried in Jarrow Cemetery. Her name was also on a marble tablet which was in the chapel of Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank, London. The memorial tablet was moved to the Royal Garrison Church, Farnborough Road, Aldershot during the later redevelopment of Millfield. Mary's brother John George Wills was also one of the fallen in the Great War.
Mary was born in Cramlington 1885 and had lived in Jarrow. She was the daughter of Jabez and Mary Wills of 62 Wansbeck Road, Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family was living at this address. John(56) was a waiter in a restaurant and Mary(56) his wife. Margy(24), Lily(16) and John G(15) but Mary Elizabeth(27) and Ethel(21) are no longer resident.
