HART, Margaret Victoria
Age at Death: 20
Rank Private
Unit Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Service Number W15063
Place of Burial Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, UK
Date of Birth 1923.05.24
Place of Birth Winnipeg MB
Enlistment April 7, 1942, London, UK
Date of Death 1944.02.06
Daughter of William Hart, and of Margaret Ann Hart (nee Hunter), of Sutton Green, Surrey, Sister of Christina, Bertha, Charles, Kenneth, James, Norman, Donald, Thomas Gordon, Milton “Bill”, Harold, Joseph, John and Sheila
Margaret Victoria Hart was killed in a motorcycle accident on the way back to base after visiting her mother with her boyfriend. A very popular woman in her unit, her funeral was attended by many service women and men. Her distraught mother sent many letters trying to retrieve lost personal items and correspondence, which was not unusual for grieving parents. Her friends knew her as Margo.
Sgt Mowbray, the motorcycle driver, was actually on duty during the visit and at the time of the accident and “was not authorized to stop off at any other place other than for duty reasons, except for a half hour break which he might take for late supper. He was not authorized to take passengers on the back of his motorcycle.”
