WW1 nurse given CWGC headstone more than 100 years after death

WW1 nurse given CWGC headstone more than 100 years after death

A special ceremony will take place on Wednesday, September 6 at Ford Park Cemetery for a World War One nurse who has been given a Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s headstone more than 100 years after her death.

Nurse Olive Bennett of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) died on October 30, 1916, but her death was never recorded as a casualty of war and she was therefore not given a...