Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler (1891-1917) lived at 104 Stanley Road and worked as a nurse at the City Fever Hospital, later joining Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. Killed by shell-fire on 21st August 1917 at Brandhoek, Belgium, she is buried with full military honours, the only woman amongst 10,000 men, at the Commonwealth Military Cemetery at Lijssenthosk.