Full Name: Margaret Helen Hassé (note the accent on the “e” of her surname). The Memorial incorrectly lists her second initial as “E” (presumably standing for “Ellen“).
Born: 20th August 1887 in Norristhorpe, Liversage, Yorkshire.
Father was a Moravian Minister, Louie St. Aubin Hassé.
Father retired to Ockbrook Moravian Settlement with his Sarah Louise, his wife and daughter Margaret in November 1912.
Was employed as a music teacher.
Became a Red Cross VAD(Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse at the Red Cross Auxiliary Hospital, Ockbrook in 1914.
During the First World War, Ockbrook Moravian Settlement hosted a Red Cross Auxiliary hospital and many soldiers came here for recuperation. Nurse Hassé was a Red Cross Volunteer there from 1914 to 1917.
Red Cross Auxiliary Hospital, Ockbrook
Commemorative Plaque
Nurses and Patients – 1916 (It is probable that Nurse Hassé is in this Photograph)
Nurses and Patients– Undated
Her brother Edwin Ridgley Hassé was killed near Ypres, Belgium in July 1916.
Transferred to Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley (near Southampton) in October, 1917.
Died of influenza in October, 1918, aged 30 years
Buried at the Ockbrook Moravian Burial Ground with full military honours.
Her father died in December 1919.
The family presented with Next-of-Kin Memorial Plaque
Commemorated on the Women’s War Memorial, York Minster
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