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Adele Mack Gerstley

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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Adele Mack
| name = Gerstley
| honorific_prefix = Mrs
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Gerstley,_Adele_Mack.jpg
| birth_date = 1886
| death_date = 1973
| address = 129 Mount Street, Berkeley Square, W1<br />61 Great Cumberland Place, W1 [1923]
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1922.06.27
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1933 last listed
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
1922.06.27 proposed by E.N. Fallaize, seconded by A. Keith <br />spelt Gentley before 1929 list
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Adele Hannah Gerstley (Mack)<br />Birthdate: May 05, 1886 (86)<br />Birthplace: San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States <br />Death: February 13, 1973 (86) <br />San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States<br />Immediate Family: <br />Daughter of Adolph Mack and Clara Mack <br />Wife of James Gerstley <br />Mother of James Mack Gerstley; Edith Mack Gerstley and Margaret Helen Button <br />Sister of Edith Miriam Brandenstein; Harold Lewis Mack and Gerstle Lewis <br /><br />Gerstley-Hoare Hospital for Officers 53 Cadogan Square, Belgravia, SW1X 0HY<br />During WW1 Louise Hoare, cousin of the politician Samuel Hoare, joined the British Red Cross. After initial training, she was appointed Commandant of the London /58 Westminster Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D.)<br />In January 1916, together with her wealthy friend Mrs Adele Gerstley, she opened a Hospital for Officers at 53 Cadogan Square. It was designated a Class A Hospital and had 25 beds. The nursing staff consisted of 3 trained nurses, and 5 full-time and 20 part-time members of the /58 V.A.D. Mrs Gerstley acted as administrator and Miss Hoare as Commandant.<br />Affiliated with Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital at Millbank, it was one of the few London hospitals that admitted casualties direct from abroad rather than via a military hospital (the others were the Weir Hospital, Mrs F.W. Salisbury-Jones' Hospital for Officers and the Hospital for Officers at 24 Park Street.<br />The Hospital closed for three weeks in February 1918 for thorough cleaning, opening again in March 1918.<br />It finally closed in April 1919. During its operational lifetime, some 550 patients had been treated, of whom two had died.
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