A nurse, victim of a flying bomb on Kingston Hospital on 5 July 1944. We thank Mike Coleman who drew our attention to this lady on the .
Further research shows that Inez May Davies was born in 1913, the 2nd of the three children of David R. Davies (1882-1957) and Ruth Davies née Jones (1884-1937). Her birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1913 in the Bedwellty Registration District, Monmouthshire, Wales. Her two siblings were: Glyn Rhys Stephen Davies (1910-1975) and David Granville Davies (1920-1989).
She undertook her nursing training between 1933 and 1936 at The Gloucester Royal Infirmary, Southgate Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire and passed her State Registered Nurse examination in London on 13 March 1936. She was listed in the 1940 edition of The Register of Nurses showing her address as 26 Woodville Road, Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire.
She was killed, age 31 years, on 5 July 1944 by a German flying bomb at Kingston County Hospital, her death being registered in the 3rd quarter of 1944 in the Surrey North-Eastern Registration District. Probate records confirm that her address had been Kingston County Hospital, Wolverton Avenue, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey (now Greater London) and when probate was granted on 30 April 1945 to her brother, Glyn Rhys Stephen Davies, who was shown as a chief billeting and welfare officer, her effects totalled £174-17s-1d.
She is shown as 'Inez M. Davies, S. R. N.' on the memorial plaque at Kingston Hospital, Wolverton Avenue, Kingston-upon-Thames. In addition to being commemorated on the and is also shown as 'DAVIES, INEZ MAY' on the that is kept just outside the entrance to St George's Chapel at the west end of Westminster Abbey, London.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk and Andrew Behan.
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