Chapter 19
Primary sources:
Queen's Nurses' magazine Feb 1919 (Roll of Honour of nurses who died of flu) [accessed at the Queen's Nursing Institute]
Queen's Nurses' magazine May 1919 (Ellen Hancox re flu epidemic in Sheffield and Miss Knox Mearns re flu epidemic in Leicester) [as above]
Queen's Nurses' magazine Oct 1919 (sugar and influenza) [as above]
Secondary sources:
Britain and the 1918â19 Influenza Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue by Niall Johnson, published by Routledge 2006
Flu â the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it, by Gina Kolata, published by Simon & Schuster, 1999
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Influenza
The great influenza â the story of the deadliest pandemic in history, by John M. Barry, published Penguin Books, 2004
Chapter 20
Primary sources:
Sir Bernard Spilsbury's index cards [accessed at The Wellcome Library, London, ref PP/SPI/5]
Chapter 21
Primary sources:
Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 (record of Harrington Offley Shore) [accessed via www.ancestry.co.uk ]
Letters Offley BFS Shore to Clarence Hobkirk dated 27th Feb 1920, 3rd March 1920 and 5th May 1920 â by kind permission of Julia Lisle
QAIMNRS service record for Florence Nightingale Shore [accessed via The National Archives ref WO399/7549]
The Medical Register 1921 [accessed via www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/medical_register]
Secondary sources:
The Ealing Gazette 24 Jan 1920 (âMiss Shore's funeral') [accessed via Ealing archives]
The Middlesex County Times 24 Jan 1920 (large crowds at funeral) [accessed via Hammersmith and Fulham archives]
West London Observer 23 Jan 1920 [A doctor's tribute to the âWhite Queen') [as above]
Chapter 22
Primary sources:
Brighton Gazette, Hove Post, Sussex and Surrey Telegraph 24 Jan 1920 (âThe train murder â a deserter's statement') [accessed via the Brighton History Centre]
Daily Mail, 26 Jan 1920 (âA blood-stained revolver') [accessed via http://newspapers.bl.uk]
Daily Mirror, 17 Jan 1920 (âFierce Fight in Defence of her Honour?', âDiscarded Clues' and âStranger to Miss Shore') [accessed via www.ukpressonline.co.uk]
Daily Mirror, 18 Jan 1920 (âFlorence Nightingale Her Inspiration') [as above]
Daily Mirror, 20 Jan 1920 (âNurse Shore's Friend', âMan in Brown Suit' and 'Missing Diamond Ring') [as above]
Eastbourne Gazette 25 Jan 1920 (âTrain murder sensation, Arrest at Eastbourne') [accessed via the East Sussex Archives]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 17 Jan 1920 (âTrain mystery ends in tragedy') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 20 Jan 1920 (âHastings train mystery') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 7 Feb 1920 (âTrain murder deadlock') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 5 Mar 1920 (âNo clue in railway murder') [as above]
Letter from OBSF Shore to Clarence Hobkirk dated 27th February 1920, by kind permission of Julia Lisle
Sir Bernard Spilsbury's index cards [accessed at The Wellcome Library, London, ref PP/SPI/5]
The Times 3 Feb 1920 (William Ernest Clements) [accessed via the East Sussex Archives]
Secondary sources:
G.R.Rubin (2011) Calling in the Met: serious crime investigation involving Scotland Yard and provincial police forces in England and Wales, 1906-1939. Legal Studies Vol. 31, No.3, September 2011, pp 411-441
Lethal Witness: Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the Honorary Pathologist, by Andrew Rose, published by The History Press, 2007
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Britain's first forensic scientist, article by Ben Macintyre [accessed via www.timesonline.co.uk]
www.btp.police.uk (history of railway police]
Chapter 23
Primary sources:
Eastbourne Gazette 21 Jan 1920 (âThe man hunt') [accessed via East Sussex Archives]
Eastbourne Gazette 25 Jan 1920 (âTrain murder sensation, Arrest at Eastbourne, Struggle with armed man) [as above]
Eastbourne Gazette 28 Jan 1920 (âTrain murder mystery') [as above].
Chapter 24
Primary sources:
Daily Mail 15 Jan 1920 (âWho attacked Nurse Shore?' Speculation on Merstham tunnel as scene of crime) [accessed via http://[email protected]]
Daily Mail 16 Jan 1920 (âWhere the police fail') [as above]
Daily Mail 19 Jan 1920 (âNew clues to man in brown suit') [as above]
Daily Mail 20 Jan 1920 (âUnsolved crimes') [as above]
Daily Mail 7 Mar 1922 (murdered women) [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 17 Jan 1920 (âTrain mystery ends in tragedy') [accessed via the East Sussex Archives]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 20 Jan 1920 (âHastings train mystery') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 7 Feb 1920 (âTrain murder deadlock') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 5 Mar 1920 (âNo clue in railway murder') [as above]
Chapter 25
Primary sources:
Sir Bernard Spilsbury's index cards [accessed at The Wellcome Library, London, ref PP/SPI/5]
Secondary sources:
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 17 Jan 1920 (âTrain mystery ends in tragedy') [accessed via the East Sussex Archives]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 20 Jan 1920 (âHastings train mystery') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 7 Feb 1920 (âTrain murder deadlock') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 5 Mar 1920 (âNo clue in railway murder') [as above]
Lethal Witness: Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the Honorary Pathologist, by Andrew Rose, published by The History Press, 2007
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Britain's first forensic scientist, article by Ben Macintyre [accessed via www.timesonline.co.uk]
www.curriculum-press.co.uk (Bio-factsheet no 193 re TB prevalence in 1920)
Chapter 26
Primary sources:
British Journal of Nursing 24 Jan 1920 (A shock to the nursing world) [accessed via www.info.britishjournalofnursing.com ]
British Journal of Nursing Feb 1920 (memorial) [as above]
British Journal of Nursing 8 Jul 1922 (opening of new Home) [as above]
Free BMD Index (death certificate) [accessed via www.ancestry.co.uk]
Hammersmith District Nursing Association Annual Report 1942 (bombing of Home and subsequent moves of the Association) [accessed via www.lbhf.gov.uk] and personal correspondence with archivist
Passenger List âThe Orbita' 1922 [accessed via www.ancestry.co.uk]
QAIMNSR service record for Florence Nightingale Shore [accessed via The National Archives ref WO399/7549]
Queen's Nurses' magazine Feb 1922 (sums contributed to the FNS memorial fund) [accessed at The Queen's Nursing Institute]
Queen's Nurses' magazine Aug 1922 (opening of FNS guest room) [as above]
Queen's Nurses' magazine 1926 (tributes to Mabel Rogers on retirement) [as above]
The Will of Florence Nightingale Shore died 16 Jan 1920 [accessed via The Probate Registry, London]
The Will of Urith Beresford Ffoye Shore died 18 Feb 1915 [accessed via The Probate Registry, London]
Secondary sources:
An Enchanted Journey â The letters of the Philadelphia wife of a British Officer of the Indian Army. Ed. Alan Jone, published by The Pentland Press, 1994
http://www.oocities.com/layedwyer/shore.htm re Dru Drury family history
Chapter 27
Primary sources:
Brighton Electoral Register 1920 [accessed via the Brighton History Centre]
The Census 1911 [as above]
Secondary sources:
Daily Mail 19 Jan 1920 (witness J. Smith) [accessed via http://newspapers.bl.uk]
Chapter 28
Secondary sources:
Daily Mail 28 Apr 1920 (âGrey motor-car crime') [accessed via http://newspapers.bl.uk]
Daily Mail 29 Apr 1920 (âMotor crime trail') [as above]
Daily Mail 30 Apr 1920 (âMotor-car man hunt') [as above]
Daily Mail 8 May 1920 (âPolice hunt for Toplis') [as above]
Daily Mail 10 May 1920 (âStill at large') [as above]
Daily Mail 21 May 1920 (âHunt for Toplis') [as above]
Daily Mail 5 Jun 1920 (âMoor man hunt') [as above]
Daily Mail 7 Jun 1920 (âToplis shot dead') [as above]
Daily Mail 8 Jun 1920 (âUnsolved crimes â Was Toplis responsible?') [as above]
Daily Mail 9 Jun 1920 (âToplis's last hour') [as above]
Daily Mail 9 Jun 1920 (âToplis buried secretly') [as above]
Daily Mail 10 Nov 1920 (âNurse Shore murder â Guarded man's reported statement') [as above]
http://www.eden.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/museum-penrith-and-eden/museum-collections/percy-toplis/ re Percy Topliss
Chapter 29
Primary sources:
Jeremy Stone, personal communication
Secondary sources:
http://www.oocities.com/layedwyer/shore.htm (book âWho killed Nurse Florence Nightingale Shore?' with Mabel Rogers theory) [accessed 25 May 2011]
âWho killed Nurse Florence Nightingale Shore', unpublished manuscript, by Patrick Pasciewicz, 2008, kindly shared by Reid Pasckiewicz and Erika Nelson
