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Edith Hilda Hamilton-Gordon was born on 22nd July 1881 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, the daughter of Douglas George Hamilton-Gordon and Edith Annie Hamilton-Gordon (née Bullock).  She lived most of her early life in Chelsea, Middlesex, where, on 12th December 1906, she married Sir Richard Fitzgerald Glyn, 4th Baronet.  They went on to have five children.   By 1911 they were living at Cross House, Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, Dorset, from where Lady Edith served with the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from January 1916 until March 1919.  She was a member of the Blandford 40 Dorset Working Party organizing the provision of additional clothing to troops.  It is recorded that much of the personal items she made or sent were from her own material.   By the 1921 Census she was living at St. Brides, Burlington Road, Swanage, Dorset and by the 1939 Register had moved with her husband to Gaunts House, Hinton Parva, Wimborne, Dorset.   She died in The Victoria Hospital, Wimborne, on 10th June 1957 and was buried at Hinton Parva on 14th June 1957.

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Elsie Louise Brown was born on 20th July 1884 at Redlynch, Wiltshire, the daughter of John Brown and Amelia Brown (née Radden).  She married Frank Walter Barnes at Redlynch, Wiltshire on 26th March 1913 and they set up home at East Knoyle, Wiltshire.  There appear to have been no children of the marriage.  She joined the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) in January 1915 and remained until 1919.  Her duties were based on nursing at the VAD Hospital (Dorset 16), Mere, Wiltshire.  By the 1921 Census she was living at Church Cottage, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, where her husband was the local Headmaster. By the 1939 Register she was at the same address.  She died in 1970 at Samborne Hospital, Warminster, Wiltshire and was buried at East Knoyle on 15th August 1970.

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Mary Ogilvie Ansdell was born in Kensington, Middlesex, on 9th February 1893 and baptised at St. Bartholemew's Church, Horley. Surrey, on 29 Mar 1893 the daughter of Frank Ansdell and Helen Ansdell (née Ogilvie).  She lived most of her early life in Surrey.   The family had moved to Broad Oak, Semley, Wiltshire, prior to the outbreak of WW1 and she volunteered with the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from January 1915 until March 1919.  She served (alongside her sister, Priscilla Helen Ansdell) from Jan 1915 until Mar 1919 at the Tisbury (Auxiliary A) Hospital, Tisbury, Wiltshire, as well as Fairhope Auxiliary Hospital, Pendleton, Lancashire, as a Nurse.  The 1921 Census shows she had returned to Semley to live with her family and, following the death of her father, had moved, per the 1939 Register, to 23 Kingsbury Square, Wilton, Wiltshire, living with her widowed mother and sister.   She remained single all her life.  Her death is recorded at Warminster on 16 May 1982 and she was later buried alongside her sister at Devizes Road Cemetery, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

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Winifred Jessie Young was born in Motcombe, Dorset, on 10th October 1897 and baptised at Semley, Wiltshire, on 7th November 1897 the daughter of Ernest George Young (a Farmer at Harthill Farm, Semley, Wiltshire) and Emily Mary Young (née Pike).   Winifred lived all her early life at Semley with her parents. Following the outbreak of war she joined the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) and became a nurse at the Tisbury (Auxilary A) Hospital which was situated in the Tisbury Vicarage, Tisbury, Wiltshire.  She served from May 1915 to May 1916.  

She married John Eric Forsyth Montague in Barnstable, Devon, in 1921. She was possibly divorced prior to 1932 when she married Aubrey David Noel Forsyth Forrest at St. Georges, Hanover Square, London, in late 1932.  The relationship of the two husbands is not known.  By the time of the 1939 Register Winifred was living in Flower Court, Bradfield, Berkshire with her stockbroker husband and one daughter. Aubrey died in early 1941 and Winifred appears to have remarried a William C. Yates in Westminster, London, in late 1941.  When she died in the village of Teigh, Rutland, on 13th April 1990 at the age of 92 she was recorded under her second married name of Forrest and buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Teigh, Rutland.