| | Id: | 21775 | | Final Grade: | Sister | | Title: | Miss | | Forename(s): | Katy | | Surname: | BEAUFOY | | Final Employment Status: | Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) | | Post Nominals: | | | Birthplace: | Aston, Birmingham | | Date of Birth: | December 20, 1868 | | Education: | | | Father's Occupation: | Pensioned Superintendent GPO Birmingham | | Training Hospital: | Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital | | Training Place: | Exeter | | Hospital Type: | | | Nursing Experience: | Trained RD&D, Exeter October 16, 1893 - January 11, 1898. Sister of Operating Theatres (18 months), Sister of the Male Wards (6 Months). Matron of Exeter Sanatorium (for infectious diseases) January 11, 1888 until joining PCANSR. | | Age in 1899: | 31 | | Service Number: | 743 | | Enlistment or Seniority: | July 24, 1900 | | Shipping: | | | Honours and Awards: | | | Illness or Death: | Invalided to England | | Served in Burgher Camp: | | | Joined QAIMNS: | | | Military Career: | The Birmingham Weekly Post, Saturday March 9, 1918
Miss Katy Beaufoy, the matron on the torpedoed hospital ship, Glenart Castle, was a Birmingaham 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. | | WW1 Service: | | | References: | WO 100/229 QSA Medal Roll p91 created at No20 General Hospital, Elandsfontein; dated July 15, 1901
War Office (1900) Nominal Roll of Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) as at 30th September
WO 399/494 Personal record | | Comments: | Joined from Capetown on disembarkation; invalided to England | | Photograph: |  | | Photograph Information: | This is a post Boer War picture in the QAIMNS(R) |
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