Sophia Flora Skipwith

(Sophia) Flora Cooke-Yarborough

• Born in 1854 in London.
• Daughter of Colonel Charles Cooke-Yarborough and Flora Emily Sophia Grant
• Married Grey Townsend Skipwith in Sept 1887
• Resided at Loversall Hall, Doncaster.

When war broke out, Mrs Skipwith stepped up to help care for wounded soldiers. She ran a rest hut on the platform at Doncaster railway station for the use of wounded soldiers passing through the town. In December 1914, she opened up her home, Loversall Hall, as an auxiliary hospital and provided 100 beds for wounded soldiers.

Flora also suffered a personal loss through the war when her son Granville Arthur Skipwith, a Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, was killed in action in June of 1915.

Flora was awarded an OBE for her war time contribution. She died ion 19 December 1940.

References

• The Peerage
• Doncaster 1914-18

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192636041/sophia-flora-skipwith