Henrietta Mellett, a Canadian Nursing Sister, serving at Taplow, Buckinghamshire, was granted leave from 24 September to 10 October 1918 (inclusive). She visited her sisters in Dublin and was returning via Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead aboard the mail boat "Leinster" on 10th October 1918 when the boat was torpedoed twice by a German U-boat in the Irish sea. Henrietta was killed and is buried with her brother, Patrick Henry, and sisters Margaret and Julia Alice in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone lies atop the grave. Her name appears on the memorial at The Mayo Peace Park, Garden of Remembrance, Castlebar, County Mayo. Entry in The War Diary for Taplow dated 21 October 1918 - N/S H Mellett struck off strength having been killed by enemy action at sea Ireland's Memorial Records Entry: MELLETT, Henrietta. Rank , Nursing Sister, Canadian Army Medical Corps; murdered by Huns, October 1918 A plaque is displayed in Victoria Hospital School of Nursing, London, Ontario which is inscribed: In memory of our graduate nurses who gave their lives in service overseas. LIEUT AGNES McDougall LIEUT HENRIETTA MELLETT LIEUT KATHERINE M MACDONALD LIEUT DOROTHY MAY BALDWIN Their name liveth for evermore

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