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Elsie and Mairi Go To War [139] [140] Diane Atkinson: Jennifer Black and Pauline Lockhart: This is a true story about best friends. Elsie Knocker was thirty and a lady with a past; and eighteen-year-old Mairi Gooden-Chisholm, who had just left school. They met on motorbikes two years before the outbreak of the First World War.
Lady Mary Russell (née Baillie-Hamilton; 13 January 1934 – 18 September 2022) was a Scottish socialite who was a maid of honour at the coronation of Elizabeth II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was the youngest maid of honour at the Queen's coronation.
Services were held at Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, [26] and she was buried alongside her husband and son (Fred Jr.) at Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens. [32] The death notice in her Scottish hometown newspaper, the Stornoway Gazette, read: "Peacefully in New York on 7th August, Mary Ann Trump, aged 88 years ...
Mairi Lambert Gooden Chisholm, of Chisholm, MM, OStJ (26 February 1896 – 22 August 1981) was a Scottish nurse and ambulance driver in the First World War. She, together with her friend Elsie Knocker , won numerous medals for bravery and for saving the lives of thousands of soldiers on the Western Front in Belgium.
Elsie Knocker, later Baroness de T'Serclaes, MM, OStJ (née Elizabeth Blackall Shapter; 29 July 1884 – 26 April 1978) was a British nurse and ambulance driver in World War I who, together with her friend Mairi Chisholm, won numerous medals for bravery and for saving the lives of thousands of soldiers on the Western Front in Belgium.
There was a funeral Mass at St. Gabriel's Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. [34] [35] Funeral of Mother Jones, December 3, 1930. Jones is buried in the Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois, alongside miners who died in the 1898 Battle of Virden. [36] [37] [38] She called these miners, killed in strike-related violence, "her boys."
Mairi Campbell, Scottish singer and musician; Mairi Cameron, Australian director of music videos and films, winner of Australian Video of the Year in the 2010 J Awards; Mairi Chisholm (1896–1981), Scottish nurse and ambulance driver in the First World War; Mairi Gougeon (born 1985), Scottish politician
Mairi Robinson (née Macnicol) (21 January 1945 to 17 June 2020) [1] was best known for her dedication towards the study of the Scottish language and Scottish lexicography. She worked on the later stages of the Scottish National Dictionary and became the editor-in-chief where she oversaw the 1985 publication for the Concise Scots dictionary.