Alice Eliza Hope Beare

A Hospital Sister, Alice died on 4 May 1941, aged 37.

Alice was born at Oulton Broad on 20 March 1904, a daughter of Chrles Frederick and Alice Beare. She was baptised at Saint Mark’s Church on 8 May 1904 and her family lived at Victoria Road. By 1921 Alice’s father had died and her family still lived at Victoria Road, but Alice lived at Binstead Farm, Low Road, Mettingham, with her aunt Emma Blundell, and Alice worked as a clerk for J. and J. Edwards at Lowestoft. Later her mother lived at 8 Victoria Road. 

Between 1924 and 1928 Alice trained as a nurse at the East Suffolk And Ipswich Hospital. She passed her examination and joined the nursing register on 22 March 1929.  

In 1939 Alice, a member of the Civilian Nursing Reserve, was a hospital sister at East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich, and she lived at a nurses home at 19 Broughton Road, Ipswich.

Alice died at Westerfield Road, Ipswich, during an air raid.