Military service
Service number:
82/T/118
Age:
33
Rank:
Nurse
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Military V.A.D.
Birth:
December 27, 1884
Prescot, England
Death:
September 26, 1918
Aldershot, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
AG. 374.
Additional information
Daughter of Pearson Gill Twist and Julia Twist, of Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Nurse Dorothy Pearson Twist
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Dorothy Twist
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Grave Marker
Grave of Dorothy Pearson Twist VAD photographed in early 1990s. She died of influenza pneumonia and was buried with full military honours at Aldershot Military Cemetery. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 1, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y257uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
Digital gallery of
Nurse Dorothy Pearson Twist
Digital gallery of
Nurse Dorothy Pearson Twist
Digital gallery of
Nurse Dorothy Pearson Twist
ALDERSHOT MILITARY CEMETERY Hampshire, United Kingdom
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