Mary Ellen Holloway Amos Ward, BEM (4 April 1884 – 29 March 1972) was an English nurse to the boat people on the waterways.
Ward was born on 4 April 1884, the daughter of rope and twine manufacturer Thomas Amos and Sarah Ellen Hollowell.
The family life centred on her birthplace of Stoke Bruerne, one of the major junctions of the English canals.
When this moved to a shed (formerly occupied by the stonemason) by the side of Lock 15, it became her surgery from where she administered medicine and care to the boat people.
Many of her friends from Stoke Bruerne attended the screening and a picture of this can still be seen hanging on the wall in the Boat Inn there.