{"id":7206,"date":"2025-04-24T09:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:36:05","slug":"bousfield-m-c-assistant-nurse-voluntary-aid-detachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/bousfield-m-c-assistant-nurse-voluntary-aid-detachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bousfield M C Assistant Nurse Voluntary Aid Detachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOUSFIELD, MARY CAWSTON, Assistant Nurse, Voluntary Aid Detachment, eldest dau. of William G. R. Bousfield. of 48. Elmbourne Road, Tooting Common, S.W., Architect, by his wife, Mary, dan, of the late Samuel William Cawston, of Balham Hill, London. S.W.; b. Balham, 27 Aug. 1891: educ. The Elms School, Streatham, S.W., and Clarence House, Rochampton. S. W.; joined the St. John&#8217;s Ambulance Brigade 20 Dec. 1913; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war, and joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment: served in England from 1914-16, and at No. 8 General Hospital, Rouen, from 1916-19, and died there 24 Feb. 1919, of pneumonia, following influenza. Buried in St. Sever Cemetery. Rouen. She was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, and awarded the Royal Red Cross (Second Class): unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOUSFIELD, MARY CAWSTON, Assistant Nurse, Voluntary Aid Detachment, eldest dau. of William G. R. Bousfield. of 48. Elmbourne Road, Tooting Common, S.W., Architect, by his wife, Mary, dan, of the late Samuel William Cawston, of Balham Hill, London. S.W.; b. Balham, 27 Aug. 1891: educ. The Elms School, Streatham, S.W., and Clarence House, Rochampton. S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nursing-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7207,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions\/7207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}