British Red Cross Sister Kezia Esther McConville

Picture courtesy of John E Owens

Regiment/Unit: Voluntary Aid Detachment -
Theatre of War: Home

Age at death: 33
Date of death: 6th of December 1918 (Friday)
Born: Runcorn
Burial / Memorial: St Helens Cemetery - Sec 9 / Grave 190

Family details:
Kezia Esther Allen, daughter of James and Harriet (nee Jones) Allen. Husband: Mark Roye McConville (1887-1929), married 25/12/1916, Liverpool. Son: James Roye McConville (1917-1994)

Census details:
In the 1901 Census, she is with her family at 124 Westfield Street and then in 1911 as a nurse at Winwick.

Notes:
[url=https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/18468769.tragic-story-st-helens-nurse-died-spanish-flu-pandemic/]Tragic story of St Helens nurse who died during Spanish Flu pandemic - St Helens Star[/url]

British Red Cross Sister/Trained Nurse Kezia Esther "Cassie" McConville (nee Allen) Trained as nurse, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, London, 1904-07. Then served at Queen Victoria House, Barkingside, Essex in 1908, and then at the Monsall Fever Hospital, Monsall Street, Manchester (1909) Other BRCS VAD service:1915 The Tower Hospital, Rainhill, Lancashire Served at the following BRC VAD Hospitals, 1915-1917: 1915 - Bulstrode Park BRC VAD Hospital, Buckinghamshire October 1915-February 1916 - Dane John Hospital, Canterbury, Kent 2 March-29 November 1916 - Liverpool Merchants' Hospital, Liverpool, Lancashire, England (No.6 Hospital British Red Cross), Etaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France June 1917 - Hospital for Officers, 24 Park Street, Mayfair, London W1 Death: 6 December 1918 - Westcliff Nursing Home, 14-18 Pembury Road, Westcliff on Sea, Essex, England in the Spanish Flu pandemic as a result of treating the wounded from the Front 1919 - Posthumously awarded British & Victory Medals, delivered to parents in Hardshaw Street, St. Helens [pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/CassieAllen_hs.jpg[/pic][caption]Headstone at St Helens Cemetery, courtesy John E Owens[/caption]