Sarah Chesterman is mentioned in a newspaper article from December 1942. This was the Worthing Herald, but the story was repurposed across other titles at the time too. The headline is ‘Women do big jobs on the railways. Mere man’s tribute – We’d be in a mess without them”.
It describes Miss Sarah Chesterman, 33, who worked in a store. This gave a year of birth, that she was unmarried, and possibly a store/shop worker. They even showed a photograph – though very poorly reproduced in the article online.
The 1939 register shows only one possibility for Sarah (born 16 Oct 1908). We can assume that she didn’t marry as she kept her birth name to the last. Her parents and siblings were in Oxfordshire. She was buried back in Kidlington – where her relatives may still be.
