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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.

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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.