This unfortunate lady has presented me with research identification problems. No date of birth or location, no parents or any other personal details. Below is all that I have been able to locate. Even that has a query in the date of her sailing from Southampton however the date posted below does conform to the date of a group of nurses selected by Princess Alexandra for service in South Africa.
I did find a reference to the fact that she is commemorated on a war memorial in Barnwell, Somerset suggesting that could be her hometown but unable to find an illustration of the memorial.
Be most grateful for any bits and pieces that any member can locate.
Tony
“Nursing Sister Florence Bell trained as a Nurse at the Great Northern Central Hospital, London. She later enlisted on 26th June 1898 in the Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Reserve Service Number 28.
At 18.15 on Saturday 23rd December 1899 she sailed from Southampton, with Lord Roberts on the S.S. Dunotter Castle for South Africa; on arrival she was posted to the Stationary Hospital, Modder River near Kimberley, Northern Cape where died from Typhoid Fever on 6th April 1900”
