The following roll call of Sussex 54 VAD personnel has largely been compiled from a single 1914 source and is certainly incomplete. It is ironic that although VAD Probationer Edith Oliver inspired the research that led to this website, it is Edith Oliver and her colleagues in Sussex 54 VAD that I have least information about.  I would welcome further input from visitors to this site who can either add names to the list or augment any of the biographical details contained here.

 

I have used the term "Nurse" for those women who provided nursing services although strictly speaking, "Probationer" is the correct term for those VAD members who were not qualified nurses.

 

Sussex 54 VAD 1914 – 1918

 

Miss or Mrs BEST, Cook

Miss Frances Isabel BLENCOWE, Nurse and Commandant

Mrs Mabel Frances BLENCOWE, Quartermaster

Miss Margaret Penelope BLENCOWE, Nurse

Mrs Emily BRYANT, Nurse

Miss Susan Margaret COTESWORTH, Commandant

Miss or Mrs CURTIS, Cook

Miss Jessie Mary FENN, Nurse

Miss Alice Kathleen FENN, Nurse

Miss A GANDER, Assistant Quartermaster

Miss or Mrs GASTON, Nurse

Miss Helen Marian GREEN, Nurse

Miss Marina Edith Boune GROUNDS, Nurse

Miss Unis Reta Boune GROUNDS, Nurse

Miss Rose A HANCOCK, Nurse

Miss Dorothy Austen HOLCROFT, Clerk

Miss Emily Morris MARSHALL, Matron

Miss Edith OLIVER, Nurse

Dr William Stewart ORTON, Medical Officer

Sister OSMUND, Lady Superintendent

Alice POINTING, Cook

Miss Kathleen Etheldred POWNALL Nurse

Miss or Mrs ROOTES, Nurse

Miss Marguerite Harriet SANDFORD, Nurse

Miss Rose Beatrice SMYTHE, Nurse

Mrs Ada Elizabeth WEST, Nurse

Dr H R WHITEHEAD, Surgeon General

Miss or Mrs O WILSON, Nurse