April Ashley April Ashley April Ashley, MBE (born 29 April 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was outed as a transgender woman by the "Sunday People" newspaper in 1961 and is one of the earliest British people known to have had sex reassignment surgery. Born George Jamieson in Sefton General Hospital, Liverpool, she was one of six surviving children of a Roman Catholic father, Frederick Jamieson, and a Protestant mother, Ada Brown Jamieson. In her childhood in Liverpool, Ashley suffered from both calcium deficiency, requiring weekly calcium injections at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, and bed-wetting, resulting in her
Mabel Jamieson Mabel Jamieson Mabel Elizabeth Jamieson (21 July 1881 – 23 October 1915) was a New Zealand nurse who served in World War I and died when the SS "Marquette" was torpedoed and sunk in 1915. Jamieson was born in 1881 in Kumara, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Her parents were Thomas and Frances Jamieson. She trained as a nurse at Palmerston North Hospital. In 1915, Jamieson was nursing at Palmerston North Hospital. She resigned her position to enlist in the New Zealand Army Nursing Service. She left Wellington on board the SS "Maheno". The