Cicely Eady

Henry Eady and Ann Etty Radford married on the 22nd January 1894 at Elmton with Creswell. They started their married life living in Creswell, the birth place of Ann and by the end of the year they had a daughter named Cecily. In the following year, the family moved to Langwith where Henry was employed as a gamekeeper. In the following years, Cecily had two sisters, Dorothy in 1896, and Mabel in 1899. After the war started, Cecily worked in the local munitions factory.

Inscription on the War Memorial information board Cecily EADY Cecily Eady was a civilian; she was the eldest daughter of Mr Henry & Mrs Anne Ettie Eady. Her father was the local Blue Barn Farm gamekeeper and resided at Barn Farm Lodge. She worked at H.M. Factory (Munitions), which once stood on part of the present Pouter Country Park. She was 23 years of age when she was killed, along with two men in a fire at the factory on November 20th 1917. Her remains are buried in Cuckney Church Yard. Cecily died with two male colleagues when there was a flash fire in the grinding house at the munitions factory. Her funeral was held at Cuckney Church on 24 November at which the vicar of Cuckney, Rev JW Smith, said, 'She should be numbered amongst the noble band who had made the greatest sacrifice in the cause of freedom and righteousness.' She is buried in Cuckney churchyard.