Around Ealing Autumn 2014 | Page 58

LOOKING BACK WITH DR JONATHAN OATES Who was Miss Harman? If you look on the Ealing War Memorial outside Pitzhanger Manor you will see, among the list of names of those men killed in the First World War, that of Miss A. Harman; the sole female name on that memorial. 58 around ealing Autumn 2014 I first noticed this when reading a book about Middlesex and seeing her name in the section about Ealing, before checking the memorial. However, in the Borough’s Roll of Honour at Ealing Library there is no reference to her. Neither is she on the Commonwealth war Graves Commission listings (to service personnel killed overseas). So who was she? Women were not employed in the fighting services at that time nor were there any air raids on Miss Harman’s name on Ealing War Memorial Ealing during the First World War. Could she have been employed as a nurse and saw service overseas in the Red Cross or another nursing unit? What was her local connection? Not knowing her first name was a hindrance, too. I checked Female factory workers in Southall c. 1910