If anyone knows of any who are not yet on this list please get in touch. Many thanks.
POETS WHO WERE NURSES, VADs, etc. IN WW1
BRITAIN
Edith Bagnold (Great-grandmother to Samantha Cameron wife of the current British Prime Minister)
Maud Anna Bell
Beatrix Brice Miller - went to France as a Lady Helper with her mother who was a trained nurse
Vera Brittain
May Wedderburn Cannan (VAD - Rouen, France 1915 and Paris in 1918)
Agatha Christie - VAD in Devon
Jessica Stewart Dismorr (1885 - 1939) - Artist who nursed in France in WW1
Eva Dobell
Lady Helena Emily Gleichen (1873 - 1947) - Artist. Radiographer during WW1
Rosaleen Louise Graves (1894 – 1989) – poet, WW1 VAD nurse joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment on 17th September 1915; after initial training in Chislehurst and London sent to No. 54 General Hospital, Wimereux, France on 23rd November 1917; served in France until 14th March 1919.
I. Grindley
Cicely Hamilton - Royaumont - administrator; actress, poet, writer
Winifred Holtby - drove ambulances in France
Violet Jessop
Winifred Mabel Letts - served with the Almeric Paget team of physiotherapists
Nina Mardel
Naomi Mitchison - Scottish
Carola Oman
Jessie Pope - was a volunteer at St. Dunstan's home for the Blind during WW1
Olivia Robertson
May Sinclair (Travelled to France with Dr. H. Monro in August 1914, May had to return to England after six weeks due to shell shock)
Freya Stark
Millicent Sutherland - funded a hospital - her work was painted by the French artist Victor Tardieu
Joan Thompson
Evelyn Underhill (I am not sure if she nursed but she did work for the SSAFA - Soldiers, Sailors, Air Force Association)
Alberta Vickridge
M. Winifred Wedgwood
AMERICA
Mary Borden set up and funded a medical team and went to France 1915 - 1918
Amelia Earhart - trained as a VAD assistant in Canada 1917 - 1918
Margaret Helen Florine RN (1879 - 1949) – American poet and nurse in WW1
Mary H.J. Henderson lived in England and went with Elsa Inglis to Russia and Serbia to nurse
Elizabeth Nourse (1859 - 1938) ARTIST - worked in France helping refugees WW1
Marie Van Vorst
Edith Wharton
Ella Wheeler Wilcox - went to France in 1918 to read poetry and lecture to the troops
Grace Ellery Channing went as a War Correspondent
AUSTRALIA
Iso (Isobel) Rae (1860 - 1940) Artist - joined the VAD in London WW1 - Etaples Base Camp
Marjorie Kane Smyth (1888 - 1974) - VAD with St. John's Ambulance Brigade Egypt and France
Jessie Traill (1891 - 1967) Artist - joined the VAD in London WW1 worked in hospitals in England and France
Jessie Traill (1891 - 1967) Artist - joined the VAD in London WW1 worked in hospitals in England and France
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE
Stephanie HOLLENSTEIN - Artist who nursed, became a soldier, then a war artist in WW1
GERMANY
Henriette HARDENBERG - poet and nurse
RUSSIA
Elizabeta POLONSKAYA - poet and doctor
TURKEY
Emine SEMIYE ONASY (1864 – 1944) – writer/nurse
