WWI nurse death centenary marked in Leedspublished at 09:43 British Summer Time 21 August 2017
A ceremony is to be held later at St James's Hospital in Leeds to mark the centenary of the death of one of two British women killed during World War One and buried in Belgium.
Nellie Spindler, from Wakefield, died aged 26 in a blast at a hospital three miles from the front line near Ypres in 1917.
Ms Spindler was buried with full military honours and is the only woman buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, among 10,000 men.
Ms Spindler joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and in July 1917 she was transferred from France to Belgium.
Working for No 44 Casualty Clearing Station she helped treat seriously injured soldiers at a hospital situated within the range of German shells at the Battle of Passchendaele.