Katy Beaufoy


The Birmingham Weekly Post, Saturday March 9, 1918

Miss Katy Beaufoy, the matron on the torpedoed hospital ship, Glenart Castle, was a Birmingham lady and it is feared she is among the missing. She was a daughter of the late Mr Thomas Beaufoy, for many years an official of the Birmingham Post Office , and a sister of Mrs J Howard Kirk, of The Grange Shirley, where she made her home.

Miss Beaufoy was matron of the Military Hospital at Exeter when the South African war broke out, and she volunteered for active service, and served throughout the war. For three years she was assistant matron of the Queen of Italy's Polytechnic in Rome, for the training of young Italian nurses, for which she was decorated. Miss Beaufoy volunteered immediately the present war broke out, and for the early months of the war was at Devonport Military Hospital. From there she was sent to Ras-el-Din Hospital at Alexandria. She had her first ship, the Ionian, at Mudros, after which she was appointed matron of the New Khedivial Hotel at Alexandria.

In June 1916, she was appointed matron of the Dover Castle, in which she continued for fifteen months, only being absent for a few days when the vessel was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. After being on shore for a short time she was given the Glenart Castle on her first voyage, from November to February and was in her when she was torpedoed on February 26.


Credit for this picture to Andy Skarstein

Service Record

From

To

Dover Castle

Matron

6/1916

9/1917

Glenart Castle

Matron

11/1917

2/1918

Torpedoed & sunk

Killed

26 February 1918


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