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Henrietta Rachel Samuels

Henrietta Rachel Samuels

Born:
1880
Died:
18 Nisan 5727 (28 April 1967)

Basic Information

Unique reference:
SAM4374
Gender:
Female

Birth

Date of birth:
1880
Place of birth:
London

Death

Date of death:
18 Nisan 5727 (28 April 1967)
Died in combat?:
No
Burial place:
Willesden Jewish Cemetery

Places

Addresses

105 Brondesbury Road London (1911)
Address on her Red Cross Papers:
15 Callcott Court, Callcott Road London (1914)
129 Broadhurst Gardens London (1939)

Synagogues

Name:
Hampstead Synagogue

Henrietta served as a VAD Nurse from 7th March 1910 all through the war. In total she worked 11,383 hours with the sick and wounded. At the end of the war she was still working, by that time at Tudor House in Hampstead.
On the 1939 Household survey she is 'Living on Own Means', but was Commandant Reserve of the Berridge House in Hampstead.
This was the National Sociey’s Training College of Domestic Science in Parsifal Road, Hampstead, which was amalgamated into Berridge House along with another church training college, and in 1964 it joined St. Katherine's College, Tottenham, to form the College of All Saints, White Hart Lane, Tottenham. Berridge House continued in use for Home Economics until September 1965.

Research by Lola Fraser

Family

Siblings

Lesser Joseph Samuels (male)
George Bernard Samuels (male)
Sydney Morris Samuels MC (male)
Josephine Sarah Kate Samuels (female)

Parents

Father: David Samuels (male)
Mother: Rachel Evelyn (female)

Homefront

Occupation:
VAD Nurse
Member of family in armed forces:
Brothers: Sydney Morris MC, Lesser Joseph Samuels and Bernard George Samuels
What was the impact of this:
Served at the following:
Paddington & Kensington Infirmaries, King George & Gt. Northern Hosp.,Sept/14 Gave instruction in bandaging etc. to new members of a V.A.D. being formed. Oct & Nov. 1914 Gave lectures & demonstrations in nursing at mothers' meetings. Willesden Parish Rooms. Dec 1914 up to Feb 1915 - Served at Paddington & Kensington Infirmaries & at the Manchester Hotel Belgium Relief Hostel. Feb to end June Served at Western Ophthalmic Hospital. July 1915 - Feb 1918 King George Hosp. Waterloo. March - Oct Gt. Northern Central Hosp. Nov 1918. Tudor House Mil: Hosp: Hampstead N W 3.

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