Staff Nurse Edith Mary CAMMACK

Staff Nurse Edith Mary CAMMACK - Territorial Force Nursing Service

Died on Friday 1st March 1918 aged 42

Military History


Theatre of War	Campaign Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
Salonika / Home	British War & Victory Medals	Knowle (Parish Church) Churchyard

Arrived in Theatre	Other Medal	SWFHS Area Memorials
5 Aug 1916 in Salonika	Associate Royal Red Cross	Knowle Soldiers Chapel
		Knowle War Memorial
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted
Died of Dysentry and Malaria	8 Dec 1914 in Plymouth	Other War Memorials

Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth	~

Edith's 128 page Service Records is available (free after registration) from the National Archives under reference WO 399/10233. Search here

8 Dec 1914 - Enlisted for service at 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth (or 12 Aug 1914 - conflicting records)
12 Jul 1915 - Transferred to 1st Southern General Hospital Birmingham
5 Aug 1916 - 30 Stationary Hospital, Karaissi, Salonika
17 Jan 1918 - 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth

30 Sep 1916 - Admitted as Patient at 30 Stationary Hospital, Salonika suffering from Dysentery
3 Oct 1916 - Transferred to 43rd General Hospital, Karaissi
15 Oct 1916 - Transferred to Malta on Hospital Ship, Wandilla
30 Dec 1916 - Arrived back for duty at 30 Stationary Hospital, Salonika
28 Aug 1917 - Admitted to the Convalescent Camp, Salonika suffering from Malaria
20 Sep 1917 - Admitted to 43rd General Hospital, Karaissi with enteritis
22 Sep 1917 - Recorded as being seriously ill with fibrosis
3 Oct 1917 - Invalided to Hospital at Villino Postelli, Sliema, Malta
12 Nov 1917 - Invalided home to Queen Alexandra Hospital, Millbank, London
6 Jan 1918 - Passed fit to serve by Medical Board
9 Jan 1918 - At home in Knowle
17 Jan 1918 - Reported for duty at 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth (but secretly suffering from Dysentery)
26 Feb 1918 - Taken seriously ill at the 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth
1 Mar 1918 - Found semi-comatose at at 8-30am
1 Mar 1918 - Died at 7.35pm

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Personal & Family History

Birth Date/Place	Baptism Date/Place
10 Aug 1875 in Spalding, Lincs	22 Sep 1878 at Spalding, St. Nicholas

Parents Names	Abode
Edmund and Mary Ann Cammack	Spalding, Lincs

Schools	Colleges
	~

Address History	Employment History
1875 - Spalding, Lincs	1891 - Scholar
1881 - 13 Pinchbeck Street, Boston, Lincs	1901 - Hospital Nurse
1891 - 41 Pinchbeck Street, Boston, Lincs	1911 - Temporary Assistant Nurse in Workhouse
1901 - Warneford Hospital, Leamington Spa	1914 - Staff Nurse in TFNS
1911 - 1 Wantage Road, Wallingford	1917 - Staff Nurse in TFNS
1917 - The Clough, Knowle (service record)

Not to be confused with the Edith Mary Cammack born in 1878 of Bennington, Boston, Lincs
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