Jane Knox
Served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corp (WAAC)
We do not know much about Jane. Unfortunately, her service records for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corp do not survive. We do know that she died right at the end of the war and that her brother was also killed serving in the Royal Flying Corp. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, brother and sister are buried in the same grave at Harton Cemetery, South Shields.
Civil Parish: South Shields
Birth date: 1887
Death date: 1918-Nov-11
Armed force/civilian: Civilian
Residence: 17 Hunter’s Terrace, South Shields (CWGC)
Organisation membership: WAAC
Employment: Domestic servant (1911 census)
Family: Father: George Wallace Knox (CWGC)
Military service:
Forewoman
Memorial(s): South Shields Cemetery, Harton (CWGC)
St Michael and All Angels, South Shields, panel and Book of Rememberance (www.newmp.org.uk)
Spirtualist Meeting Hall, Fowler Street, South Shields (www.newmp.org.uk)
Five Sisters Memorial and Window, York Minster
Gender: Female
Contributed by Durham County Record Office
