Name
Cicely Mary Leigh Pope
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/06/1921
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Nursing Sister
Voluntary Aid Detachment
British Red Cross Society Scottish Women’s Hospital
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHELA KULA MILITARY CEMETERY, NIS
C. 2.
Serbia
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary's Church Memorial, Redbourn
Pre War
Born in 1889 in the Vicarage, Redbourn, Herts. daughter of Rev. William Alexander and Frances Allenby (White) Pope and was baptised in Redbourn on 8 Jan 1890. They lived in Crown Street, Redbourn after her father died.
Wartime Service
Enrolled with British Red Cross in Jan 1916 in St Albans and resigned in Apr 1916 to go to Serbia as part of the Scottish Women’s Hospital. Was probably working as a nurse in the Chela Kula Military Hospital, Nis which was the ancient capital of Serbia during the war although Nis was in Bulgarian hands from Nov 1915 until the end of WW1. Continued with nursing after the war and died, in Nis, Serbia.
Additional Information
Continued with nursing after the war and died, age 41, in Nish, Serbia in june 1921.
Not in the CWGC database.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Gareth Hughes
