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Nurse Ada Rushforth RRC
Queen Alexandra's Nursing Service
from:London
This is my grandmother's aunt who I know worked on 11 Casualty Clearing Station during WW1 up until March 1919. From the National Archives notes when she completed her service and that she was awarded the RRC second class.
I have a bullet that was given to her by a grateful soldier that has a cross carved out of it when you pull it apart you can see the cross. She worked at Westminster Hospital which is the same hospital I trained at. I am now a Sister and I feel very proud to think what work she must have done. I also have a couple of photos of her and some soldiers if that is any use to you. She had some septic sores for which she had to be treated back in England for but when she recovered she returned to the clearing station.
All I remember my grandmother saying about her was that when she came back she did not speak for a long time and she would sit in the garden for hours. I presume she must have suffered post traumatic stress.
