BRAMWELL Eileen

Eileen Bramwell was born in Northumberland on the 19th August 1926, the daughter of Henry M. and Grace (nee Maughan) Bramwell. Unfortunately, due to GDPR and the closure rules applied to certain documents there are currently no further records available relating to Eileen Bramwell.

The Aberdeen Evening Express of 5th September 1959 has the following short report on Eileen’s death:
An Army nursing sister, Lieut. Eileen Bramwell (33) was killed when her car collided with a lorry one mile from the military hospital at Imfarta, Malta. Lieut. Bramwell’s home was in Newcastle.

Birmingham Daily Post, 7th September 1959
Manslaughter of Nurse Alleged
A Maltese driver whose R.A.F. lorry was in collision with an Army nursing car at Valetta on Friday, is to be charged with Manslaughter as soon as he is discharged from hospital, the Valetta police said yesterday. An Army nurse, Lieut. Eileen Bramwell, aged 33, of Newcastle, was killed in the crash.

The following newspaper reports found in the British Newspaper Archive were shared with me through a Post on ‘X’:
British Nurse Fatally Injured
A British Army Nurse was killed and another injured in Malta yesterday when a car in which they were travelling was in collision with a Royal Air Force Truck.
Lt. Eileen Bramwell (33), from Newcastle, of Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, died on the way to hospital after the crash. She was serving at the David Bruce Military Hospital.
Capt. Agnes Roddy, a passenger in the car, received slight injuries and was taken to hospital.-Reuters

Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 5th September 1959
Car-truck crash kills North Nurse
Lieut. Eileen Bramwell, aged 33, of Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, whose parents live in Monkseaton, died on the way to hospital after a crash in Malta.
The car in which she was travelling collided with an R.A.F. truck.
Her father, Mr Henry Bramwell, of Hermiston, Monkseaton, told the Evening Chronicle: “She wanted to go abroad and this was her first overseas posting. My daughter was a girl who devoted her life to others.”
Companion hurt
Lieutenant Bramwell had almost finished her studies in architecture when, at 24, she decided she had a vocation for nursing. A former pupil at Whitley Bay Grammar School, she had recently bought a car and was soon to have gone to Cyprus on holiday.
Her companion in the car, Captain Agnes Roddy, was slightly injured.

The grave of Eileen Bramwell.
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