3. She also lectured throughout Europe on behalf of the League of Nations and became a staunch opponent of apartheid after her trip to south Africa.
She had suffered from poor health for several years with Bright’s disease in 1932 and died in London in 1935, just 37 years old. She is buried in All Saints Churchyard Rudston where she was born. #yorkshire #history #yorkshirewomen

2. It was during this time at Oxford she met with author Vera Britten, and they became lifelong friends.
When living in London she built her career as a writer and a journalist writing for feminine journals and trade union magazines which reflect her pacifist and socialist beliefs.
Her books reflected and influenced by her life and the landscape and traditions of her childhood of the people and the Yorkshire Wolds. #yorkshire #history #yorkshirewomen

1. Inspirational Women from Yorkshire.
Winifred Holtby daughter of David Holtby and Alice Winn. Winifred was born in 1898, Rudston, East Yorkshire.
Winifred was an author, but not known as well as the Bronte sisters. She worked at a nursing home with wounded soldiers who had returned from the front before joining the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.
Later she went to study at Oxford Somerville College in 1917. #history #yorkshire #yorkshirewomen

3. She tended to injured and dying soldiers from all over the world. She enlisted in the British Red Cross Hospital in Swinton Grange to provide help and companionship to the injured in their darkest hour’s in Britain and France during WW1.
Ursula did have a period of illness herself and was sent home from France to recuperate from “Rose Measles”. This seems to have been what we now know as German Measles. #inspirationalwomen #history #yorkshirewomen

At the end of the war, she was sent to work in Germany. Found to be suffering from ‘debility’ at a medical board in July 1919, Minnie was sent to a hydropathic establishment in Ilkley, Yorkshire for a month. She resumed her duties in the military hospitals in Devonport and then Lichfield. She was posted to Malta in 1922 before being sent to Belfast in 1923.
She died in 1967. ~ A gallant and gracious lady whose memory is treasured by all who privileged to know her. #yorkshirewomen #history

By her work and example, she greatly assisted in the speedy evacuation of the patients and the transfer of the Sisters”
This was during the Battle of Passchendaele on the Western Front. Sadly, one of the nurses in her team - Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler - was fatally injured during the bombardment and it is said, died in Sister Wood’s arms.
Minnie was also awarded the OBE and Royal Red Cross (2nd and 1st class) and mentioned in dispatches three times. #yorkshirewomen #history

2. “For most courageous devotion to duty. On the 21st August 1917, this lady was Sister-in-Charge at No.44 Casualty Clearing Station, Brandhoek, when it was shelled at short intervals from 11 a.m. till night, one Sister being killed. This lady never lost her nerve for a moment and during the whole of a most trying day, carried out her duties with the greatest steadiness and coolness. #yorkshirewomen #history

1. Yorkshire Women who served in WW1 and WW2. Story of Minnie Wood OBE, MM, RRC
Minnie Wood was born on 14th October 1880, Birstall, Yorkshire. During the First World War, Minnie nursed in Flanders - in Casualty Clearing Stations, in a Field Ambulance and in Stationary Hospitals. She was awarded the Military Medal, one of only 146 nurses to receive this medal during WW1. It was awarded with the following citation: #yorkshirewomen #history

4. The Last Post was sounded, and it is thought that more than 100 officers, four generals and the Surgeon-General attended the funeral. Her headstone bears the inscription: #ww1 #hisotry #yorkshirewomen

3. Nellie quickly fell unconscious and as her colleagues desperately tried to treat her wounds, she was cradled by Sister Minnie Wood, dying peacefully in the arms of her fellow nurse.
Nellie, aged 26, was buried with full Military Honours the next day at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery the only woman among more than 10,000 men. #ww1 #history #yorkshirewomen

2. She worked at No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) which in July moved close to the front line at Brandhoek, Belgium, where they tended wounded soldiers. It was a frequent target for shelling by enemy troops and on 21 August, it was shelled all day during the Battle of Passchendaele.
At 11am, Nellie was hit along with four other nurses by an exploding shell and suffered serious injuries. #ww1 #history #yorkshirewomen

1. Yorkshire Women who served in WW1 and WW2.
This is the story of Nellie Spindler. Nellie Spindler daughter of George Kealy Spindler and Elizabeth Snowden, was born in 1891, Wakefield, Yorkshire. In 1911 she was a hospital nurse at City fever Hospital, Wakefield age 19. She volunteered for the Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service and was posted to France. #WW1 #history #yorkshirewomen

Helena Whitbread, the historian who decoded Anne Lister's diaries, has been recognised in the New Year's Honours list.
https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/people/new-years-honours-historian-who-uncovered-gentleman-jack-diaries-and-calderdale-a-and-e-life-saver-honoured-by-the-king-3970290
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