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Johncock, F. M.
Florence Minnie
Johncock, 24919, was in the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary
Corps. She was 23 when she died of pneumonia from
influenza on 5 November 1918 at the military hospital
Colchester (Essex County Hospital on burial record)
Her body
was brought home by rail and the night before her
funeral a service was held at St Bartholomew's Church.
She was buried on 14 November at Charlton Cemetery, 1H
16, and had a military
funeral with pall bearers from the Connaught Rangers
and representatives of the QMAAC from several units
She was the daughter of John Henry and
Clara Johncock of 6 Odo Road, Dover, formerly 27 Tower
Hamlets Road. Among the floral tributes was one from
"her broken-hearted father and mother" another from her
sisters Rosie, Hazel, and Winnie, and one from her
brother Godfrey, with the BEF in France. Her old
schoolmates Cissie, Clara, and Ettie Pollard also sent
flowers
Her headstone has fallen over. It reads:
In Loving Memory of
Florence Minnie Johncock
Q M A A C
Died in her country's service
5 November 1918 Aged 23 years
She hath done what she could |