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Basil Ward born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England on 20-Feb-1913.
He died in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England on 22-Jul-1963 aged 50.
His burial took place in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
His final RestInPlace is in North Bierley Cemetery, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
About Basil Ward
Basil, son of Joseph Ward and his wife Frances formerly Kenefick, was born at 47 Malvern Street, Bradford, on 20 Feb 1913. It is possible that he attended Feversham Street School and St Mary's Boys' School. He won a scholarship to go to secondary school but was not allowed to take up his place because of money problems in the family.
He was a member of the De La Salle Band at St Mary's Church, where he played cornet and later clarinet.
He went to work as a warehouseman at Johnson's, Humboldt Street, Bradford, packing linings, foulards, etc. The slump of the early 1930s reduced prospects in the business and on 14 Nov 1934 he went as a student mental nurse at The Retreat, York, where he lived in.
He passed his exams in 1937, received a certificate as a Registered Mental Nurse in May 1938, and did a year's staff nursing up to 3 Nov 1938. On 9 Nov he went to Chesterfield Royal Infirmary to do general nursing training, also living in. In 1940 he was ill with suspected TB glands of the abdomen, which caused him to lose all his hair. The TB was never confirmed.
Though his nursing course was only for two years, the outbreak of war in 1939 caused the final exams to be postponed. Basil was called up before he was able to take them, and the Army would not release him for that purpose. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Mental Nursing Orderly from 16 Jan 1941. His military training was done at Beckett's Park, Leeds. In Oct 1941 he was posted to India, where he served in Bombay and Deolali, and learned to swim in the Indian Ocean.
He returned to England in 1945, being in the middle of the Indian Ocean on V.E. Day (8 May 1945), and was held for a week on board ship about 6 miles off Liverpool, waiting for an escort through the minefields. He arrived home about midnight on the night following his father's funeral (14 Jun 1945), unaware of the tragedy because of a strict radio silence which had prevented a message from reaching him.
On 18 Oct 1945, at St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, East Parade, Bradford, he married Ethel Hardisty Holmes (http://restinplace.com/grave.php?gid=8).
While abroad Basil had developed a hernia and this was operated on in York Military Hospital at the end of the month. He was then sent to Askham Richard Convalescent Home. Once he was recovered, the RAMC sent him to Ovenden, Halifax, on a rehabilitation course - and then posted him to Talgarth on the Black Mountain in Breconshire, a sanatorium which had been turned into a Military Mental Hospital. He was there until about May 1946 when he took his leave due and was finally discharged from the army on 9 Aug 1946.
On 11 Sep 1946 Basil and Ethel took a flat at 35 Avenue Crescent, Harehills, Leeds, and Basil recommenced his interrupted general nursing training on 12 Aug at St James' Hospital, Leeds. It was while here that his allergy to the disinfectant Dettol came to light and the dermatitis it caused plagued him for the rest of his life.
He finished work at St James's on 26 Jan 1947 and started next day as a staff nurse at the Herzl Moser Hospital, Leeds. His SRN Certificate was dated Feb 1947.
The shortage of accommodation available in the years after the war made it necessary to share houses and on 8 May 1947 Basil and Ethel moved into 29 St Martin's View, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, the home of widowed Mrs Alf Mattison.
On 4 Jan 1948 Basil left the Herzl Moser Hospital, then a small general Jewish Hospital, now a home for aged Jews. He did not obtain a new post until 26 Apr 1948 when he became charge nurse at the Marguerite Hepton Memorial Orthopaedic Hospital for children, Thorp Arch, near Wetherby. They moved house on 26 Jun 1948 to 8 Albion Terrace, Clifford, Wetherby.
Their first child, Catherine Barbara Frances Ward, was born at Leeds Maternity Hospital on 3 Aug 1948, and the following spring, on 18 Apr 1949, the family rented 'Tadmor', High Street, Boston Spa, where they lived until the next summer.
Basil obtained a position as Deputy Charge Nurse at Westwood Mental Hospital, Cooper Lane, Bradford, and started work there on 24 Jul 1950. He and Ethel bought a terraced house at 39 Blamires Street, Bradford, and moved into it on 9 Aug 1950. Their second child, Anthony James, was born there on 22 Sep 1950.
Basil was a good talker. He liked the cinema but not live theatre, which he said was a waste of money. He played football for the Westwood Staff Team, and was president of the Bradford Half-Holiday League. On 8 Jun 1955 he was promoted to Charge Nurse at Westwood.
In Jul 1960 the family moved to 792 Great Horton Road, Bradford, and before the end of that month Basil was rushed into St Luke's Hospital for an emergency appendectomy.
It was Basil's habit to stay at Westwood Hospital talking to colleagues after the end of his shift at 8 p.m. Sometimes he left so late that he had missed the last bus along Cooper Lane and had to walk down to the depot at Bank Top. It was while doing this, on 22 Jul 1963, that he had a fatal heart attack and died in Cooper Lane. He was buried at North Bierley Cemetery.
This headstone was created by Basil Ward's Grandson, adultsm. |
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