WOMEN IN WAR: Ivy Taylor served as Royal Air Force nurse
The late Ivy Taylor, a former resident of the Wellington Terrace in Aboyne, served as a Royal Air Force nurse in England during the Second World War.
Once time a seriously injured soldier no older than 20 handed her a broken rosary. “Pray for me,” he said. The soldier died shortly thereafter, and though Taylor did not even know his name, she never forgot his last wish. Into her 90s she carried the broken rosary as a reminder of the young man, and all the others lost at such a young age.
“We all fought and left our loved ones for the love of our country and the security of our loved ones,” she told the Advertiser in 2008.
After the war, Taylor married Canadian soldier Jack Taylor, moved to St. Thomas and continued working as a nurse for many years.
