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Staff Nurse NELLIE SPINDLER

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service

44th Casualty Clearing Station

Date of Death

Died 21 August 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

XVI. A. 3.

Belgium

Headstone of Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery - one of only two female casualties of the Great War buried in Belgium.

Photographer: CWGC

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Daughter of George and Elizabeth Spindler, of Wakefield. One of only two female casualties of the Great War buried in Belgium.
  • Personal Inscription A NOBLE TYPE OF GOOD HEROIC WOMANHOOD
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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