Reference: Adrian Sandes - Chapter 1 Annex A, Part 3, Page 5-01

Norah Melita (0201) was born at 110, Strada San Lorenzo, Malta, on 11 March 1874. She was large, weighing 131⁄2 stone aged 21, but talented, painting in oils when young, and very religious, belonging to the Pentecostal Church of Elim. Having failed to finish a nursing course in 1896, she trained to join the YWCA and went to India in 1908 to work in Bombay and Calcutta, but resigned in 1912. In 1916 she went out to India again as a missionary, but was invalided home in 1919. She died of cancer at Eastbourne on 8 April 1962, and left most of her estate to the family of her younger sister Eva. My sister Penelope recalls two stories of her. Once, when she came to stay with Eva, she was still there six weeks later; when asked when she would leave, she said she was Waiting for a Sign. Another time, her nephew John Falkner and his wife Ruth were travelling with her in their car, when they noticed that it had got very dark inside; she had put up her umbrella!