Lives of the First World War

A Guy's Hospital obituary for Elsie Gladstone included the picture above, of Elsie in uniform.

This portrait comes from a Gladstone family album, and is believed to have been taken in around 1900 or 1901 when Elsie was 14 or 15 years old.

This photograph comes from a Gladstone family album, and is thought to be of Elsie when she was serving as a nurse in France.

This photograph shows Elsie in her nursing uniform during the war. A note on the back, in Elsie's sister Rose's distinctive penmanship, reads "Sister Elsie M. Gladstone. QAIMNS; died nursing influenza stricken troops, Namur, Jan 1919. Served in France from August 1915. Rec. RCC. Anaesthetist for the hospital train."

Elsie Gladstone's grave in Belgrade Cemetery, Namur, Belgium. The photograph was taken by her sister Rose when she visited the cemetery, but is not dated.

Family group photograph taken in Jersey. Back row: Cecil Ernest, Rose and attendant Australian suitor (unsuccessful); seated or knealing left to right Elsie, Florence Eliot, Gladys (known as Betty) and Florence.

A Memorial to Voluntary Aid Detachment and Professional Nurses who lost their lives in the 1st and 2nd World Wars, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, dedicated and unveiled on 4th June 2018 at an event attended by HRH The Countess of Wessex GCVO, Royal Patron of the Nursing Memorial Appeal. The memorial takes the form of hands cast in bronze holding a globe carrying the names of nurses who lost their lives in service in the two World Wars. Further information about the memorial can be found on the Nursing Memorial Appeal website at www.nursingmemorialappeal.org.uk