The Royal Red Cross was conferred on Nurse Margaret Bissett of Cumnock, Nurse Jeanie Dunlop of Catrine and Sister A H Paton of Auchinleck on 2 Mar 1917.
Margaret Bissett was born about 1892 in Cronberry to colliery blacksmith Robert Bissett of Closeburn and his wife Annie Aitken of Auchinleck. Her brothers Robert and James served in the army.
She was a staff nurse at the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital at Bellahouston, Glasgow.
She was with the Scottish Women's Hospital at Ajaccio in Corsica from May til November 1917 and was awarded the British War Medal.
She was presented with her award by the King at Buckingham Palace on Saturday 6th April 1918.
After the war she married Arthur Hayward of London a sub-editor in 1920. Her address at that time was 12 Urbana Terrace, Baird Street, Cumnock. She was a nurse.
Cumnock Connections tree
The other recipients of the medal were Jeanie or Jane Dunlop of Catrine who was a sister in the 4th Scottish General Hospital at Stobhill and Agnes Hendrie Paton of Auchinleck who was a sister at Queen Mary's Hospital in Whalley Lancashire. They both were presented with their medal on Saturday 24th March 1917 by the King at Buckingham Palace. (Thanks to Jenny Bradford for looking them up)
Agnes Hendrie Paton known as Nancy married architect Thomas Phillips Figgis in 1930. She died in 1989 at the age of 101 at Doonfoot in Ayr.
Red Cross
Scottish Women's Hospitals
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