Savell, Edith Alma Eileen (1883–1970)
Savell, Edith Alma Eileen (1883–1970)
New Zealand farmer and nurse. Name variations: Edith Alma Eileen Neilson. Born Dec 31, 1883, in Lyttelton, New Zealand; died Aug 27, 1970, at Feilding, New Zealand; dau. of Charles Magnus Neilson (mariner) and Sarah Alma (Brown) Neilson; m. Alfred Leopold Savell, 1940 (died 1940).
Volunteered to serve with New Zealand Volunteer Sisterhood to care for New Zealand soldiers in Egypt (1915); returned to New Zealand to farm property (1918).
See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 3).
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