Person:Dorothy Berry (6)

Dorothy Lawrence Berry
b.2 Mar 1881
Facts and Events
Name Dorothy Lawrence Berry
Gender Female
Birth? 2 Mar 1881
Marriage Abt 1957 to Unknown
Death? Folkestone, Kent, England33 Wells Road

Dorothy had an eventful career, received her training as a Hospital Children's Nurse at Pendlebury near Manchester, finishing at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London. For approximately two and a half years (1909-1911) she saw service with the British Ambassador's family at the British Embassy in Paris; after which, in the summer of that momentous year of 1914, she unconsciously and unwittingly found herself in residence in Berlin, still as a children's nurse. In due course she became a prisoner of war being in residence at a Castle on the borders of Poland and Russia; then in 1915 she was transferred to Switzerland. Whilst here, she again took up her work as a children's nurse, and finally in the year of 1918 she was able to return home to England, and immediately had to enter hospital for an operation for appendicitis. Edward Marchant, 33 Wells Road, Folkestone, Kent. England, February 1959 from a Portrait of Cecil Lawrence Berry.