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.
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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