Hasse, Margaret E

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.

• 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