Miss Gabrielle Margaret Scarborough
Nurse, Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), British Red Cross
Date of Birth: Quarter 1, 1884
Place of Birth: Colyton, Devon
Date of Death: 9 December, 1962 aged 78
Buried: Buried in the family grave in Teignmouth Cemetery in Devon
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Miss Gabrielle Scarborough of The Clintons, Teignmouth, Devon.
Gabrielle was born in the first quarter of 1984, in Colyton in Devon.
Her father was Elijah Impey Scarborough, a gentleman from Beer in Devon, and her mother was Margaret Blanche Scarborough (née Gilliard), from Hereford.
In 1891 she was living at Kingsholme, Colyford with her family and four servants (a governess, a cook, a housemaid and a nursemaid).
Gabrielle had a brother, Major Michael Claud Scarborough who was killed on the Somme in 1916 aged 33. She also had a sister, Marion Scarborough. Both sisters were engaged with VAD as nurses.
As a VAD nurse, during the First World War Gabrielle worked part-time alternate weeks of day and night duty doing ward work and nursing at the Teignmouth Auxiliary Military Hospital for a total of 6720 hours.
In some records her name is spelled Gabrielle Margaret Scarbrough.
Gabrielle is remembered on the family memorial in Teignmouth Cemetery
Gabrielle died a spinster on 9 December, 1962 aged 78 in Fairlight Nursing Home, York Road, Torquay, Devon, England.
Her sister Marion who was also a spinster died nine months later.
Gabrielle is remembered on the family memorial in Teignmouth Cemetery.
Date of engagement with VAD: January 1915 - still serving at the end of the war.
Rank: Nurse.
Duties: Ward work and nursing
Service rendered at:
Teignmouth Auxiliary Military Hospital, Devon.
Number of hours served: 6720 (part-time).
Paid: £0.
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