Nursing Sister Ellen Lucy Foyster of the Special Reserve, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, was drowned on the 10th April 1917. She was 36 years old, the daughter of Rebecca Foyster of 37 Madeira Avenue, Worthing, Sussex, and the late H A Foyster. She had been on active service since 1915.
This from Wikipedia:
"While returning to pick up wounded at the port of Le Havre, France, HMHS Salta struck a mine at 11:43, one mile north of the entrance to the dam. A huge explosion smashed the hull near the stern in the engine room and hold number three. Water rushed into the disabled ship which listed to starboard and sank in less than 10 minutes. Of the 205 passengers and crew members, nine nurses, 42 member of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and 79 crew drowned.
The English patrol boat HMS P-26 attempted to come alongside to assist, but also struck a mine and sank."
Ellen Foyster is commemorated on the Salta Memorial in Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre. This from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
"A memorial in Plot 62 marks the graves of 24 casualties from the hospital ship 'Salta' and her patrol boat, sunk by a mine on 10 April 1917. The memorial also commemorates by name the soldiers, nurses and merchant seamen lost from the 'Salta' whose bodies were not recovered, and those lost in the sinking of the hospital ship 'Galeka' (mined on 28 October 1916) and the transport ship 'Normandy' (torpedoed on 25 January 1918), whose graves are not known."
Memorial photograph courtesy of the Roll of Honour website.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Soldiers Died in The Great War
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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