Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Bishop, Pearlie
Parallel form(s) of name
Bishop, Alice Margaret
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Description area
Dates of existence
1876-1962
History
Pearlie Bishop was born in 1876 in Cambridge, daughter of a wholesale grocer who managed the firm Halleck & Bond. She began a nursing career circa 1900 and acted as a nurse in the First World War, being Commandant of the Huntley V.A.D. Hospital in Cambridge, as well as being in charge of the Air Raid Squad and sugar distribution to Cambridgeshire hospitals. She was also a nurse in the Second World, being attached to the Women's Volunteer Service. For her war work she was awarded a MBE. She died in 1962 in Cambridge.