Notes
The Parish Council website (see References) is the source of the extra information and carries this biographical detail: 'There is only one female mentioned on the memorial, ‘Sister Appleyard’. Rose Appleyard was born in Great Coates in 1888, her parents were Charles Appleyard, (31) a Railway Platelayer and Mary J. Appleyard (31). In 1891 the family was living at 73 Macaulay Street in Grimsby. In 1901 when Rose was 13 the family was living at 18 Ash Grove in Great Coates. The family had a boarder Herbert Jarvis aged 15 living with them.
The 1911 when Rose would be 23, Census records show that Charles and Mary were living alone. Charles died in 1929 and Mary Jane in 1934.
Extracts from Great Coates Parish Magazines (1917 – 1920):
June 1917: ‘We are now sending one of our ‘old girls’ to be a nurse amongst the troops in Egypt. Miss Rose Appleyard. She has been doing good and hard work in the London hospital for some time with civilians and soldiers. We wish her every success in her new post, and pray for her safe return’.
November 1917: ‘Miss Rose Appleyard has arrived safely at Alexandria and is doing work as a nurse amongst soldiers there. We wish her health and strength to carry on her self-denying duties’.
September 1920: ‘We are very glad to see Sister Appleyard back among us once more. She has had a strenuous three years of work as a Nurse in Constantinople and all parts of the East and has had a wonderful experience. She should have returned home several weeks ago, but has been ‘held up’ at Alexandria for want of a steamer to bring her back. She has been awarded Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service Decoration. She is the last of the Great Coates’ War Contingent to be demobilized. She well deserves rest’.'