With grateful thanks to Historian, Writer and Poet AC Benus* for reminding me that, although Enid Petre was already on the List of Female Poets of the First World War, I had not yet researched and written a post about her.
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Enid Beatrice Petre was born on 3rd March 1890 in Aligarh, Bengal, India. Her parents were Francis Loraine Petre, a civil servant who worked in India, and his wife, Maude Ellen Petre, nee Rawlinson, who were married in Bengal in 1887.
In the 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census, the family were living at No. 27, Gledhow Gardens, Kensington, London, UK.
During the First World War, Enid served as a nurse with the British Red Cross as a VAD from 19th November 1917 until 28th February 1918. According to her WW1 British Red Cross VAD Record Card, it seems that Enid worked at the Royal Free Military Hospital in London.
On the 1921 Census, Enid is recorded as living at No. 25 Golborne Street in Kensington, London, UK.
Enid died on 13th October 1962.
Enid’s WW1 poetry collections were:
“Autumn Leaves, 1915” (A.L. Humphreys, 1916)
“Fallen Petals: Poems” (A.L. Humphreys, 1917)
Sources: Find my Past
https://www.thepeerage.com/p4944.htm
https://vad.redcross.org.uk/search
https://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/hospitals/hospital.php?pid=13853
Catherine W. Reilly, “English Poetry of the First World War: A Bibliography” (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1978) p. 252
*AC Benus is the author of a book about German WW1 poet Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele : “The Thousandth Regiment: A Translation of and Commentary on Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele’s War Poems” by AC Benus (AC Benus, San Francisco, 2020). Along with Hans's story, the book includes original poems as well as translations. ISBN: 978-1657220584
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1657220583
