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Jessie E. Ritchie
Military Information
- Date of enlistment:
- Place of enlistment:
- Service no: N/A
- Rank: Staff Nurse
- Service Occupation:
- Awards:
- Regiment/Service: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
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- Place of Death: Greece
- Age at Death: 50
- Date of Death: 13.08.1916
- Burial Country: Greece
- Cemetery: Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery
- Grave/Mem Ref no: O.10.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 1866
- Place of Birth: Cargill, Perthshire
- Address:
- Occupation:
- Mother:
Jessie Ritchie (nee Douglas)
- Father:
Alexander Ritchie
- Siblings:
James Douglas Ritchie, The Neuk, Rosemount, Blairgowrie, Alexander, Isabella, John, Jean & Agnes
- Spouse:
- Children:
More about Jessie E. Ritchie
Jessie completed her nursing training at Dundee Royal Infirmary and served during the Boer War where she was Matron at the Orange River (Concentration) Refugee Camp in 1902. She joined the B.E.F. in France during the first days of WW1 as a Staff Nurse. She was transferred first to Egypt and then to the Salonika Front where she contracted Dysentery and died 13.08.1916.
She is remembered on both the Harris Academy, Dundee Roll of Honour and Wolfhill Village Hall Memorial.
Jessie Ritchie Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Reserve
FORMER DUNDEE NURSE DIES AT SALONIKA.
Nursing Sister Jessie Ritchie, of the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Reserve, and a former member of the Dundee Infirmary staff has died in hospital at Salonika.
A daughter of the late Mr Alexander Ritchie, and Mrs Ritchie, Abbeyville, Coupar Angus. Sister Ritchie entered the Dundee Infirmary in 1887, serving as a probationer for three years and acting as a sister for four years. She afterwards joined the Nurses’ Co-Operation in Cavendish Street, London.
Sister Ritchie offered her services during the Boer War. They were accepted, and she was placed in charge of a concentration camp in South Africa.
When the present war broke out Sister Ritchie was called up by the military. After a year’s service in France she was transferred to Salonika, where her death took place on Sunday.
Dundee Courier 16th August 1916
Information supplied by Gary Thomson, additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell and Jennifer Marshall
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