On 22nd February 1919 Nurse Harriett Sprowson married Staff Sergeant Edwin Alexius Lyons.

Harriet was born in Wilmslow, Cheshire in 1879. In 1911 she was boarding at the Royal Hotel in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire & working in the hospital. In 1917 she came to work at the Rosemary Military Hospital, 28 Milton Rd,  Harpenden where she had the important role of Sister-in-Charge. It is here that she met & nursed her future husband, Edwin Lyons.

Luton And The Lusitania

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