WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| Nurse M Stone | VAD [Voluntary Aid Detachment] | Born 1879 | |
| Bingham Roll of Honour | Served on the Home Front | Presumably served as a nurse in a military hospital in the UK | |
| Red Cross etc. records. | No records of her service have survived for Nurse M Stone. However, her surviving descendants confirm that the family history below is correct although they too know nothing of her war-time nursing career. |  Photo courtesy of Lorna Coleman |
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| From: qaranc.co.uk www.redcross.org.uk |
The Voluntary Aid Detachment worked at home and abroad alongside military nurses during the two World Wars. The VAD were formed in August 1909, as part of Lord Keogh's Scheme for the Organisation of Voluntary Aid, because of the fear that there was a shortage of nurses should war come. The role of the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses and assistants was to provide nursing and medical assistance during a time of war. They were organised by the British Red Cross Society and in later years the Order of St John helped. | ||
Family history etc
| Margaret Hilda Beatrice Stone (Known as Hilda) | |||
| 1879 | Born in Radford | ||
| Census 1881 | Living at 6 Birdcage Cottage, Churchfield Lane, Radford with: Father: John, b. 1837 Sheffield Mother: Patience Maria Winfield, b. 1840 Mansfield Siblings: John Walter Winfield, b. 1859 Nottingham Olivia Elizabeth Maria Alice, b.1863 Clapham, Surrey Harriet Maud, b. 1866 Battersea Violet Evelyn Lillian Jane, b.1869 Hyde I.O.W William Albert A, b.1873 Nottingham Ernest Edward Henry, b.1874 Nottingham Herbert Alfred, b.1876 Radford Edith Florence L G, b.1877 Radford |
Bricklayer Bricklayer Lace worker Lace worker |
Ancestry.co.uk: Family tree shows mother’s name as Patience Maria nee Winfield |
| Census 1891 | Living at 40 Bloor Nether Hallam, Sheffield with: Father: John Mother: Maria Siblings: Ernest Herbert Florence (Edith) |
Scholar | |
| Census 1901 |
Living at 19 Ruskin Street, Old Radford with: Father: John Mother: Maria |
Dressmaker Bricklayer |
Brother Ernest a foreman bricklayer boarding in Great Harwood,
Lancashire. 1915 married Gertrude Hutchinson in New Zealand, died 6 Mar 1949 Ngaruawahia, Auckland, New Zealand Lived in Waikato – electoral rolls 1911 [Te Maitere], 1919 [Te Waitere Raglan] 1946. Having started as a bricklayer he became a builder. |
| Census 1911 |
Living at Hill Crest, Debdale, Kegworth Notts: Father: John Mother: Maria |
Bricklayer |
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| New Zealand electoral roll | 1919: Margaret Hilda Stone c/o Mrs. Murray, Collingwood Street,
Hamilton, Waikato [45 km from Raglan, 95km from Barry Road] 1928 until 1957 Margaret Hilda McCarron lived at Barry Road, Waiki.. |
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| Family tree, Ancestry.co.uk | Hilda had emigrated to New Zealand by 1919 and married John
Francis McCarron in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty 29/7/1922. John was born 7th March 1885 in Braidwood, NSW, and Australia and died 28th September 1956. He had been married before, in 1913 at Braidwood to May Snare. We can find no subsequent record of May Snare. |
Hilda may have emigrated solely to join her brother, but she lived about 45km away from him in 1919. | |
| Discovering Anzacs web site See discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au | John Francis McCarron fought in WW1 with the NZ Army and
was wounded twice, once with gunshot wounds and once after a gas shell
attack. The web site has extensive service record material for John. He
was born on 5th February 1885 in Braidwood, NSW, Australia. He was a gold
miner and had moved to Waiki, New Zealnd to work for a gold mining company
called Sutherland in Whakatane. He joined the Otago regiment on 18th May 1916. He was 5’ 10½” and weighed 175 lbs. He was a Roman Catholic. He embarked 21.8.16 on the troop ship Bellona, at Dunedin and arrived at Devonport, UK on 25.10.16. On 4.1.17 he was posted to France. He received a serious gunshot wound in the lumbar area and was hospitalised, eventually to the NZ military hospital at Walton on Thames. On the 12th June 1917 he was transferred to the convalescent hospital at Hornchurch, where he remained until 14.8.17 when he marched with others 130 miles to the NZ base at Codford on Salisbury Plain. In February 1918 he returned to France where for a month (5th May – 7th June he was attached to 175 Tunnelling Company, presumably because of his mining experience. On 28th August he was wounded again, this time in a gas shell attack, and was evacuated to hospitals in Rouen and then Le Havre. He developed Bronchitis and after recovering re-joined his unit on 24th December. He was detached to the UK on 14th January 1919. He returned to New Zealand and was discharged on 13th May 1919 with an intended address of Waihi PO Auckland, deleted replaced with c/o PO Tepuke , [28m s of Tauranga and 127km from Hamilton]. He was awarded the British and Victory medals. The electoral registers (see below) shows he returned to mining. |
Hornchurch Hospital was staffed entirely by VADs. It is just possible Margaret was one of them and that they met here. | |
| NZ Electoral roll NZ cemetery records |
Address for both 1928: Smith Street, Waihi, he was a miner.
From 1935 they were in Barry Road, Waihi until 1954. John died on 27th September1956 and is buried at Thames Valley Cemetery, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Hilda died aged 89 on 16th August 1967 and was also buried in Thames Valley Cemetery. |
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| Her brother John died in Scarrington in 1930. It is possible that he had her name added to the roll of honour. | |||