| The History of Coagh booklet lists Staff Nurse Ellen McKeown as having served with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.) in the war.
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| Ellen McKeown was the youngest daughter of Robert and Eliza McKeown. Robert McKeown and Eliza Skeffington were married on 17th October 1872 in the district of Cookstown.
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| Ellen ‘Nellie’ McKeown was born on 10th August 1887. She was the youngest of nine children. All the children were born in the Moneymore – Coagh area.
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| Family: Robert MacKeown, Eliza MacKeown, John MacKeown (born 7th January 1874), Jane MacKeown (born 22nd December 1874), Annie MacKeown (born 24th April 1876), James MacKeown (born 14th March 1878), Margaret MacKeown (born 17th March 1880), Robert William MacKeown (born 17th April 1881), George MacKeown (born 17th March 1884), Elizabeth MacKeown (born 8th May 1886), Ellen Nellie MacKeown (born 10th August 1887).
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| The 1901 census lists Nellie as age 13, living with the family at house 15 in Tamlaght, Springhill, County Londonderry. Nellie was still at school. Her father was a farmer.
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| The 1911 census does not list Nellie as living with the family at house 13 in Tamlaght, Springhill.
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| The 1911 census lists Ellen as age 23, a hospital nurse living at house 192.2 in Falls Road, St Anne's Ward, Belfast. It may be presumed that she was working and the Royal Victoria Hospital.
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| Nurse Nellie McKeown was living at the Nurses Home, The Infirmary, Belfast when she was received a letter informing her of acceptance to the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 2nd February 1917.
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| She was posted to Dover on 2nd May 1917, where she served at the Military Hospital, Dover during the war.
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| In March 1919, after demobilisation, she returned to live at the Nurses Home, The Infirmary, Belfast.
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