Maud Lerry was born in 1884 to George and Florence Mary Lerry at 54 Castle Street, Oswestry where she lived with her 3 siblings.
Not much is known about her working life other than that she was listed as a hospital nurse on the 1911 census, employed in Liverpool. It is most likely that she would have been employed at the Royal Southern Hospital or the Liverpool Royal infirmary; both where used as auxiliary hospitals during the Great War.