OBITUARY
MISS E. STUCKEY, M.B.E.
"0.C." OF MILITARY HOSPITAL! Many New ' Zealand soldiers of the 1914-18 war will regret to learn of the death in England recently of Miss E. (Nell) Stuckey, M.B.E. Known to all the patients and staff of the Walton-on-Thames Military Hospital as the "0.C," the late Miss Stuckey was a New Zealander by birth though living in England at the time war broke out in 1914. Anxious to do her utmost for the cause, she joined one of the Voluntary Aid detachments and in due course was placed in charge of the annexe kitchen at Walton Hospital. Her cheery nature and ever-ready sympathy with the patients in their troubles soon endeared her to all and many were the "tit-bits" which she managed to make available to the cot cases in the wards and to the convalescents as they passed by the kitchen. Around her she gathered a staff of workers like herself, all imbued with the same spirit of brightening ! the monotony of hospital life for the [boys in blue. > ! At the end of the war her services were recognised by the award of the M.B.E. and all who were privileged to know her will affirm that no honour was better deserved, while the memory of her sterling worth will live forever in the hearts of those who | knew her to be one of the noblest i types of British womanhood.,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 4
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235OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 4
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