NAM.1998-01-34-1

Memorial scroll and covering note for Margaret Selina Caswell, Women’s Legion, Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, died 30 May 1918. Caswell was among nine women who died in an air raid at Abbeville in France on 30 May 1918. The scroll reads: ‘She whom this scroll commemorates was numbered among those who at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom. Let those who come after see to it that her name be not forgotten. Worker Margaret Selina Caswell/ Q.M.A.A.C.’. Covering note on Buckingham Palace headed note, reads: ‘I join with my grateful people in sending you this memorial of a brave life given for others in the Great War.’, signed by King George V. Associated with World War One (1914-1918).

World War One, Air Operations (1914-1918), World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)