- First Name(s):ElsieJanet
- Surname:UNDERWOOD
- Service Number:Unknown
- Rank:
Orderly
- Conflict:WW1
- Service:Army
- Former Units:None
- Date of Death:21st October 1918
- Age At Death:33
- Cause of Death:Pneumonia following influenza
- Place of Death:Elsie Inglis Hospital for Serbians, France
- Place of Burial:Unknown
- Place of Birth:Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
- Home Town:Unknown
- Casualty's Relatives:Unknown
UNDERWOOD Elsie Janet Is Named On These Memorials
Further Information About UNDERWOOD Elsie Janet
The birth of Elsie Janet Boulton is registered in the June Quarter 1885 under the Bromsgrove Registration District. On the 1901 census Elsie J Boulton, aged 15, born Alvechurch, Worcestershire, is a pupil at Woodvale, Woodstock Rd, Moseley, Birmingham
The marriage of Harold S. Underwood to Elsie J. Boulton is registered in the December Quarter 1914 under the Bromsgrove Registration District.
On the military nurses register Elsie is recorded as an Orderly at the Scottish Women’s Hospital, Sallanches, France, commencing on Friday 30th August 1918.
The following report appears in the Bromsgrove Messenger, 2nd November 1918:
Alvechurch Lady’s Death in France
We regret to record the death of Mrs Underwood, widow of the late Mr Harold S Underwood of Wanstead and daughter of Mr and Mrs H.W. Boulton which occurred on Monday in last week at the Elsie Inglis Hospital for Serbians, France from double pneumonia following influenza.
Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger digitised by and courtesy of Martin Stephens.


