GERTRUDE MARY DAY
Gertrude was born in April 1988. In 1911 she was living at 94 Castle Street, Oswestry. She trained as a nurse at Birkenhead Borough Hospital from 1912-1915.
The hospital was built in 1862. As wounded soldiers arrived at nearby Woodside Railway Station they were stretchered off and sent to the hospital for treatment. Gertrude continued working there until she returned to Oswestry in 1924.
Gertrude lived at 2 Stewart Street when she died on 3/5/1930, leaving £171 6s 11d to her widowed mother Sarah Jane Day.