Manor Farm, Compton Abbas

Mildred Frances Goldie

Surname: Goldie
Other names: Mildred Frances
Other people in this story:
George Goldie
Fanny Goldie née Burt
Charles William Day
Locations in this story:
Compton Abbas, Shaftesbury, Dorset
Prees Heath Military Hospital, Shropshire
Cairo, Egypt
Stalbridge, Dorset
Ramsbury, Berkshire
Froxfield, Berkshire
Portsmouth, Hampshire

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Mildred Frances Goldie was born on 23rd April 1894 at Compton Abbas, Shaftesbury, Dorset, the daughter of George Goldie and Fanny Goldie (née Burt).  She lived all her early life at Manor Farm, Compton Abbas, until obtaining a position as Governess in Ramsbury, Berkshire.  From here she joined the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) on 23rd July 1917 and was posted as a Nurse to Prees Heath Military Hospital, Shropshire, until 17th January 1818 when she embarked for Egypt. Here she joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment at the 31st General Hospital, Cairo, Egypt, until her discharge on 28th June 1919.  She was awarded the Victory Medal. She married Charles William Day in Stalbridge, Dorset, on 8th April 1920 and they went on to have two children.  The 1921 Census shows her living at Rudge Manor Farm, Froxfield, Berkshire, where her husband was Farm Baliff and later, by the 1939 Register, at Whittonditch Farm, Ramsbury, Berkshire.  At the time of her death on 22 Mar 1974 she was living at 11 Porchester Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Mildred's brother John Clark Goldie (b.1888) served with the Dorset Yeomanry in the war, becoming a Prisoner of War in Turkey.

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Ada Elizabeth Wightman

Surname: Wightman
Other names: Ada Elizabeth
Other people in this story:
David Wightman
Jane Dunford Wightman née Mace
Locations in this story:
Weymouth, Dorset
Shaftesbury, Dorset
Plymouth, Devon
Bournemouth, Dorset

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Ada Elizabeth Wightman was born in Weymouth, Dorset, on 19th September 1879 and baptised there on 14th October 1879, the daughter of David Wightman (a Grocer) and Jane Dunford Wightman (née Mace).  By 1891 the family had moved to 26 High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset. On 9th August 1915 Ada joined the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) and remained in service until 28th May 1919. She worked all this time in the Military Hospital, Plymouth, Devon.  By the 1939 Register she was living at 80 Old Castle Road, Weymouth, Dorset, still single.   She died in the Bournemouth, Hampshire, area on 1st February 1961.

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Kathleen Louise Miles

Surname: Miles
Other names: Kathleen Louise
Other people in this story:
Edward Henry Miles
Louisa Mary Miles née Best
Locations in this story:
Owermoigne, Dorset
Slade House, East Knoyle, Wiltshire
Malmesbury, Wiltshire
Melksham, Wiltshire
Chippenham, Wiltshire
Tisbury, Wiltshire
Devizes, Wiltshire
Poole, Dorset
Parkstone, Poole, Dorset

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Kathleen Louise Miles was born on 26th May 1888 at Owermoigne, Dorset, and baptised there on 21st June 1888, the daughter of Edward Henry Miles (an Estate Agent) and Louisa Mary Miles (née Best).  By 1901 the family had moved to Slade House, East Knoyle, Wiltshire. In February 1915, Kathleen joined the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) and remained in service as a Nurse until 1919.  She served in the Red Cross Hospitals at Malmesbury, Melksham and Chippenham, as well as the Auxiliary Hospitals in Devizes and Tisbury, all in Wiltshire.  By the 1921 Census she was living back with her parents in East Knoyle and by the 1939 Register had moved to 3 Spenser Road, Poole, Dorset, and was described as a School Cook.  She remained single throughout her life and died at Whitehills Nursing Home, 82 Penn Hill Avenue, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, on 15th April 1979 aged 91 years.

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Elsie Louise Brown

Surname: Brown
Other names: Elsie Louise
Other people in this story:
John Brown
Amelia Brown née Radden
Frank Walter Barnes
Locations in this story:
Redlynch, Wiltshire
East Knoyle, Wiltshire
Mere, Wiltshire
Warminster, Wiltshire

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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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Winifred Mallett

Surname: Mallett
Other names: Winifred Elsie
Other people in this story:
William Mallett
Emma Selina Mallett (née Draisey)
Percy Henry Forward
Ernest James Mallett
Percival John (Jack) Mallett
Locations in this story:
East Knoyle, Wiltshire
Mere, Wiltshire
Corsley, Warminster, Wiltshire
Tisbury, Wiltshire
Coombe Bassett, Wiltshire

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Winifred Elsie Mallett was born on 1st October 1897 at East Knoyle, Wiltshire, and baptised there on 26th December 1897, the daughter of William Mallett and Emma Selina Mallett (née Draisey).  She lived all her early life at the family home, Park Cottage, East Knoyle, Wiltshire.  She joined the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) in May 1915 until Aug, 1915 as a Nurse and served at the Tisbury (Auxiliary A) Hospital, Tisbury, Wiltshire.   The 1921 Census shows her living in at Homington House, Coombe Bassett. Wiltshire, described as a Governess. She married Percy Henry Forward, a Dairy Farmer, in 1923 in the Mere Registration District, Wiltshire, and they went on to have four children.  By the 1939 Register she was living at Wardens Farm, Corsley, Warminster, Wiltshire, where she eventually died on 4th December 1985 and buried at St. Margaret of Antioch Church, Corsley, on 11 December, 1985. Winifred's brothers, Ernest James Mallett and Percy John (Jack) Mallett, also served in the war, with the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Navy respectively, and survived.

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Mary Ogilvie Ansdell

Surname: Ansdell
Other names: Mary Ogilvie
Other people in this story:
Frank Ansdell
Helen Ansdell née Ogilvie
Priscilla Helen Ansdell
Locations in this story:
Kensington, Middlesex
Surrey
Broad Oak, Semley, Wiltshire
Tisbury War Hospital, Tisbury, Wiltshire
Wilton, Wiltshire
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Fairhope Auxiliary Hospital, Pendleton, Lancashire
Warminster, Wiltshire

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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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Priscilla Helen Ansdell

Surname: Ansdell
Other names: Priscilla Helen
Other people in this story:
Frank Ansdell
Helen Ansdell née Ogilvie
Mary Ogilvie Ansdell
Locations in this story:
Reigate, Surrey
Broadoak, Semley, Wiltshire
Kingsbury Square, Wilton, Wiltshire
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Tisbury, Wiltshire

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Priscilla Helen Ansdell was born in Reigate, Surrey, on 7th February 1896, the daughter of Frank Ansdell and Helen Ansdell (née Ogilvie).  She lived her early life in the Surrey area. The family had moved to Broad Oak, Semley, Wiltshire, prior to WW1 from where Priscilla Volunteered with the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) in March 1917 until after the end of the war. She served doing ward work (alongside her sister, Mary Ogilvie Ansdell) at the Tisbury (Auxiliary A) Hospital, Tisbury, Wiltshire.  The 1921 Census shows her living with her family still in Semley, Wiltshire. Following the death of her father in 1935, and by the 1939 Register, she had moved to 23 Kingsbury Square, Wilton, Wiltshire, with her sister Mary Ogilvie Ansdell and widowed mother.  She remained single all her life and died in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 28 Apr 1967 and buried at the Devizes Road Cemetery, Salisbury. Her sister was later buried alongside her after her death in 1982

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Winifred Jessie Young

Surname: Young
Other names: Winifred Jessie
Other people in this story:
Ernest George Young
Emily Mary Young née Pike
John Eric Forsyth Montague
Aubrey David Noel Forsyth Forrest
William C. Yates
Locations in this story:
Motcombe, Dorset
Harthill Farm, Semley, Wiltshire
Tisbury War Hospital, Tisbury Vicarage, Tisbury, Wiltshire
Barnstable, Devon
Hanover Square, London
Bradfield, Berkshire
Westminster, London
Teigh, Rutland

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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.

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Susanna Gocher

Surname: Gocher née Gray
Other names: Susanna
Other people in this story:
Henry Percy Gocher
Locations in this story:
Queensland, Australia
Saxthorpe, Norfolk
East Orchard, Shaftesbury, Dorset
Ipswich, Suffolk
Worcester
Sturminster, Dorset
Chelsea, London

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Susanna Gocher (born Susanna Gray on 16th Dec 1865 in Chelsea, London) had married Rev. Henry Percy Gocher in Queensland, Australia, on 19th September 1902.   They went on to have two children.  On returning to the UK they lived at The Vicarage, Saxthorpe, Norfolk, where Henry was Rector.  They later moved to other parishes but by the First World War Susanna was recorded as living at the Vicarage, East Orchard, Shaftesbury, Dorset, where, in 1914, Henry was shown on the Electoral Roll for the first time having been appointed to the parish. Susanna served with the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from 1st January 1918 to 1st March 1919 with a registered working party.  At the end of that period she was awarded the Red Cross and Order of St John Certificates of thanks.  Her main point of work was at the Sturminster War Depot.  Her husband died in 1937 and by the 1939 Register she had moved to 7 Crofton Road, Ipswich, Suffolk.  Her death was recorded at Worcester in 1959.

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Emily Beatrice Oborn

Surname: Oborn
Other names: Emily Beatrice
Other people in this story:
Arthur Oborn
Emily Jane Oborn
George Walter Gude
Locations in this story:
Hammersmith, London
Horseshoe Inn, Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire
Ashdown Park Hospital, Forest Row, West Sussex
New Zealand Military Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
Wilton, Wiltshire
Southfield. London
Fovant, Wiltshire
Bower Chalke, Wiltshire

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Emily Beatrice Oborn was born in Hammersmith, London, on 22nd November 1886, the daughter of Arthur Oborn (a Police Constable born in Fovant, Wiltshire) and Emily Jane Oborn.   Emily lived her early life in the London area but by 1911 her father had retired and become landlord of the Horseshoe Inn, Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire. Emily joined the British Red Cross (Voluntary Aid Detachment) on 26th September 1917 and served in various hospitals including Ashdown Park Hospital, Forest Row, West Sussex and the New Zealand Military Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.  Her service finished on 9th December 1918.  She married George W. Gude at Wilton, Wiltshire, in 1919.  There appear to have been no children of the marriage. The 1921 Census shows her visitng her parents at West End, Bower Chalke, Wiltshire.  By the 1939 Register she was living with her husband, a Railway Friendly Society Clerk, at 171 Astonville Street, Southfield, London, where she later died on 8th June 1964.

Emily's brother Henry Arthur (b.1882) also served in the UK during the war, with the Devonshire Regiment and the Labour Corps.

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