LLOYD, Ethel Beatrice
Biography
Ethel Beatrice LLOYD (known as Beatrice), was born in Lewisham, Kent in 1874[1]. Her father was a ‘Tea Broker’[2] [3]. She trained at The London Hospital[4]. Beatrice was one of the second group of nurses from the London Hospital to be chosen to go to South Africa:
It is an open secret how deeply the gentle heart of the Princess of Wales has been moved by the suffering of the sick and wounded during the war, and rumour has it that neither she nor the Duchess of Argyll have been satisfied by existing methods of organisation for providing nursing care for our brave soldiers. We were not surprised to learn that the Princess of Wales was anxious to send out more nurses, and that on Friday last she paid a private visit to the London Hospital, where a pretty and touching ceremony took place in the nurses garden, where 100 nurses were assembled. The Hon. Sydney Holland, Chairman of the Hospital, presented 20 nurses selected from the hospital staff for service in South Africa, at the expense of funds at the Princesses disposal. The Princess spoke to the nurses in turn, and, after tying round their arms her own badge, presented to each a warm Shetland shawl and rug. Each nurse will take with her a box filled with medical necessities for typhoid. The Princess is also sending with them two large boxes of presents for soldiers whom they may have to nurse. The 20 nurses selected sailed for the Cape in the transport Assaye on Wednesday last, their names being:- Miss H.O. Luckie, Sister-in-charge and Misses M.S.Baines, E.Baldrey, L.Bristow, E.Fry, A.Gore, C.Hanbury, M.M.Holloway, L.Humphreys, I.Lawson, B.E.Lloyd, E.E.C.Marsh, K.Parminter, M.E.Tate, C.E.A.Thorpe, A.Thomas and E.Whistler[5].
Miss Luckie (late Sister Gloucester) was placed in charge during the voyage, and for so long as our twenty Nurses remained together, with the understanding that Miss Lloyd – one of the Office Sisters – would assist her, or act for her, in the event of illness, or other necessity arising[6].
Nursing Service in the Boer War
Sister Ethel Beatrice LLOYD served in Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve), enlisting July 11 1900. Her service number was 720.[7]
- ↑ England and Wales FreeBMD Birth Index 1837-1915
- ↑ The National Archives: England Census 1881 RG11/ 738/ 53/ 34
- ↑ The National Archives: England Census 1891 RG12/ 526/ /39/ 3
- ↑ War Office (1900) Nominal Roll of Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service (Reserve) as at 30th September
- ↑ The Nursing Record and Hospital World Army Nursing Notes July 21, 1900 pg 55
- ↑ Matron’s newsletter No. 8 March 1901 The London Hospital
- ↑ War Office (1900) Nominal Roll of Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) as at 30th September
