Lives of the First World War

Staff Nurse Mary Rodwell, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Drowned when the Hospital Ship Anglia was mined in the English Channel 17 November 1915.

Memorial Inscription for Staff Nurse Mary Ann Rodwell on the Hollybrook Memorial

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

An image of Nurse Mary Rodwell who died whilst dressing my grandfather's (Rev Herbert Butler Cowl's) wounds on board the ship, HMHS Anglia in November 1915. Further information in the book; The Half-Shilling Curate. Lest We Forget.