260226 Staff Nurse. Eileen Gertrude Stuart Union Defence Force South African Military Nursing Service from:Marylebone, London Eileen Stuart, born July 1880 in Killaloe, Clare, Ireland, was married to my second cousin, Thomas Sydney Cashmore, in 1924 in Mombasa, Kenya where her father, George Beatty West Stuart, was involved with policing.
The 1901 Census saw her in Devizes St. James, Devizes Wiltshire, and the 1911 Census saw her in Marylebone, London. In 1916, Thomas was on Ascension Island for his employer, the Eastern Telegraph Company, for which he had worked in Australia, where he was born in 1891.
She is mentioned in the 1914-1920 Britain, Campaign, Gallantry and Long Service Medals and Awards for her service as a Staff Nurse with the South African Military Nursing Service.
Eileen died in Kent and is buried at Herne Bay Cemetery.
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