Beata Elizabeth de Courcy Morgan MILLS (née RICHARDS) [1922-1993]

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Names
Given
Beata Elizabeth de Courcy Morgan
Family
Mills
Maiden
Richards
Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
Born
Date
Birthplace (town, state)
Salcombe, Devon
Birthplace (country)
England
Died
Date
Died in (town, state)
Isle of Wight
Died in (country)
England

Beata Elizabeth de Courcy Morgan Richards was a nursing sister in the HKVDC, Nursing Detachment. 

She married Captain Alan Oswald Gawler Mills, R.A. at St. John's Cathedral on 9 June 1941.

After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp.

Her name/signature "E. de. C. Mills" appears under "VAD Nurses" on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. See: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30083388. An explanation of the "Day Joyce Sheet" is given at: https://gwulo.com/media/46458

Source

  1. Obituary: https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/beata-elizabeth-de-courcy-morgan-richards-24-mbsgwj
  2. Wedding: Hong Kong Daily Press 10 June 1941. See here
  3. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/9005-mills-bertha-eliza-de-courcy/ listed her name incorrectly.

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