Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

female, deceased (1910)
Nurse, Christian, RoyalRedCross, RRC, The Lady of the Lamp, universalist
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as "The Lady of the Lamp", was a pioneer of modern nursing and a...
Georgina Pope

Georgina Pope

female
Nurse, Canadian military history, Canada's military history, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, Canadian Army Medical Corps, RoyalRedCross
Georgina Fane Pope . Born Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island 1862. Died June 6, 1938. She graduated from the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing,...
Vivian Bullwinkel

Vivian Bullwinkel

female, deceased (2000)
Nurse, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, second world war, Australian, Officer of the Order of Australia, mbe…RoyalRedCross
Vivian Bullwinkel-Statham, AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (Born Vivian Bullwinkel) (18 December 1915- 3 July 2000) was an Australian Army nurse during the...
Agnes Hunt

Agnes Hunt

female, deceased (1948)
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, RRC, shropshire, Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire, World War I, Member of the Royal Red Cross…RoyalRedCross, British Red Cross Society, Royal Alexandra Hospital
Dame Agnes Gwendoline Hunt DBE RRC (31 December 1866-24 July 1948) is generally recognized as the first orthopaedic nurse. She was born in...

Kathleen Best

female
Women in war, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Australian military personnel, RoyalRedCross, Order of the British Empire, RRC…Member of the Royal Red Cross
Colonel Matron Kathleen Annie Louise Best, OBE, RRC (28 August 1910 - 15 November 1957), was the first director of the Women's Royal Australian...
Olga Nethersole

Olga Nethersole

female, deceased (1951)
Nurse, stage actor, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, World War I, Member of the Royal Red Cross, spanish…RoyalRedCross
Olga Isabel Nethersole CBE RRC (1863-9 January 1951) was an English actress, theatre producer and health educator. She was born in London, of...
Katharine Furse

Katharine Furse

female, deceased (1952)
Katharine Symonds, Guiding, Autobiographer, International Scouting leader, From bristol, From London…Red Cross, RoyalRedCross, Women's Royal Naval Service
Dame Katharine Furse, GBE (23 November 1875, Bristol - d. 25 November 1952, London), founder of the English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) force,...
Georgiana Buller

Georgiana Buller

female, deceased (1953)
Educator, British, Member of the Royal Red Cross, exeter, activist, boer war…Red Cross Society, RoyalRedCross
Dame Audrey Charlotte Georgiana Buller, DBE, RRC (1884 - 1953), best known as Georgiana Buller, daughter of Sir Redvers Henry Buller (1839 - 1908),...

Beryl Oliver

female, deceased (1972)
Nurse, second world war, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, British, archivist, Royal Navy…RoyalRedCross, British Red Cross Society, The British Red Cross in Action
Dame Beryl Carnegy Oliver GBE RRC (20 August 1882-13 July 1972), née Beryl Carnegy Joseph, was a British charity administrator. She was born in A...

Sarah Swift

female, deceased (1937)
Nurse, British, Member of the Royal Red Cross, royal college of nursing, British Red Cross, From lincolnshire…RoyalRedCross, British Red Cross Society, Royal Naval Nursing Service
Dame Sarah Ann Swift, GBE, RRC (22 November 1854, Kirton Skeldyke – 27 June 1937, Marylebone) was a nurse and founder in 1916 of the Royal Co...