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 Mary Elizabeth Bean was born on 26 September 1888. She married an Arthur Francis Wood and in the 1939 England and Wales Register she is shown as a widow and a hospital cleaner living at 4 Kingston Hill, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey (now Greater London) with her widowed mother Louisa Bean (1870-1955) and the register also confirms her date of birth.
She was residing at 28 Norbiton Avenue, Kingston-upon-Thames when she died, aged 55 years, on 5 July 1944 a victim of a flying bomb at Kingston County Hospital, her death being registered in the 3rd quarter of 1944 in the Surrey, North-Eastern Registration District.
She is shown as 'MARY E. WOOD' on the memorial plaque at Kingston Hospital, Wolverton Avenue, Kingston-upon-Thames. In addition to being commemorated on the she is also shown as 'WOOD, MARY ELIZABETH' 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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