Person NA2437 Shepherd; Hilda Esther (fl 1917-1970); nurse Shepherd Hilda Esther fl 1917-1970 nurse Miss Hilda Esther Shepherd was born in about 1912, probably in Bow, and died in the late 1970s or early 1980s. She attended Olga Street Girls' School and Bow Central School. She was involved with the Driffield Road Primitive Methodist Church, belonging to the Band of Hope and qualifying as a Sunday school teacher there. She trained and qualified as a nursing sister. She became a missionary in China and was interned there during the Second World War. After a short respite in England she then worked in Burma, Malaysia and Africa.

Yes 13/01/2004 Staff 29/07/2011 Melanie.Strong International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 f308e722-17e6-4795-8ae1-03921c40b00d