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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- East Lothian
- Town
- Mussleburgh
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), First World War - civilians
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 89169
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Current location
Northesk Parish Church
Bridge Street
Mussleburgh
East Lothian
Lothian
EH26
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 34049 72751
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Nowy headed Brass plaque in wooden frame
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY/OF THOSE CONNECTED WITH THIS CONGREGATION/WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/[names in 3 columns]/THEIE NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Archibald, Harry G
Baigrie, John S D
Baigrie, William D
Bain, Alexander
Black, Robert
Black, William
Blackhall, James
Brews, Alex
Brown, John
Brown, Peter
See details for all 84 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 83
Served and returned: 0
Died: 83
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, decorations
Order of information: officers THEN ranks by surname - First World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=5210&mforum=warmemscot
- Information about Helen Wood from the website Try this - ww1talk.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=2126 The first female member of the military killed in the line of duty was World War I Army nurse Edith Ayres. Nurse Ayres (nurses held no rank during World War I) was killed on May 20, 1917, while with Base Hospital #12 aboard the USS Mongolia en route to France. The ship’s crew fired the deck guns during a practice drill, and one of the guns exploded, spewing shell fragments across the deck and killing Nurse Ayres and her friend Nurse Helen Wood. Army Nurse Edith Ayers, Attica, Ohio. Killed May 20 1917 in an accident aboard the USS Mongolia, enroute to France. Army Nurse Helen Burnet Wood, Evanston, Ill. Also killed aboard the USS Mongolia. The body of Helen Burnett Wood was taken back to Chicago. Miss Wood’s home put on a massive display for the dead nurse. At Union Station her body was met by a delegation including people from both Chicago and Evanston. It was headed by John W. Scott, Vice president of the Chicago Chapter of the Illinois Branch of the American Red Cross. From the station the body was taken to Helen’s home in Evanston. Friends requested that rather than flowers, donations be sent to her aging parents in Scotland. On Saturday 26 May the coffin was escorted by fifty blue jackets from the Great Lakes Training Center and by fifty automobiles containing representatives of the Red Cross, the medical reserve corps, the city of Evanston, friends and relatives. The somber procession proceeded from her home on Sheridan Road to the First Presbyterian Church. Outside the church stood an honor guard of fifty Red Cross Nurses, fifty students from Northwestern University wearing black gowns and capes, fifty nurses from Evanston Hospital, and twenty-five uniformed members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Clergymen from three different denominations, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist, offered prayers, and the president of the Chicago chapter of the American Red Cross expressed his sympathy Attica Ohio received the remains of Edith Ayres with equal ceremony. Her body arrived at Chicago Junction, Ohio, on Thursday, May 24. Here it was met by a team from the Ohio National Guard. At the junction thirty-two automobiles, most of them filled with family friends and dignitaries, escorted the “auto-hearse” on a slow drive cross-country to Attica. Edith’s funeral took place on the same day as Helen’s. On that Saturday all businesses in Attica were closed. On the preceding Thursday and Friday schools were closed. Representatives of the American Red Cross and the Governor of Ohio sent condolences. From 11:00 until 2:00 she Edith lay in state in a flag-draped coffin inside the First Methodist Church as the people she had grown up slowly filed past. At the grave site a military salute was fired. Everything was as dignified and respectful as it could be made. This looks like the family at 34 Hercus Loan, Musselburgh in the 1901 census. John Wood 52 Frances Wood 33 Nellie Wood 12 Annie Wood 11 Johnson Wood 10 Janet Wood 8 Mary Wood 6 Willie Wood 4 Frank Wood 1 Helen Adamson 71 Jessie Chalmers 32 Helen Burnet Wood (assumed to be Nellie in the list above) was born in Portobello in 1888 to John Wood and Frances Wood (ms. Adamson). Also on the 1891 census in Portobello: John Sampson Wood 41 Frances Wood 23 Helen Burnet Wood 2 Ann Wilson Wood 1 Johnson Wood 1 Month
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