Great War Women: Manners Ambulance Corps

Members of the Manners Ambulance Corps 1914 

In Belgium Nellie Hozier can be seen in the picture alongside  in nurse’s uniform  and Red Cross armband ( seated front). She is with the other nursing staff of the Angela Manners  Ambulance Corps. 

The  Matron (in the middle ) is Miss Catherine E A Thorpe.

The Members of the Corps were: 

Catherine  E A Thorpe :Matron 

Hon. Angela  (Ange)  Manners  : Organiser ( daughter of the 3rd Lord Manners)

Nellie Hozier : Interpreter and Secretary ( sister in law of Winston Churchill)

Margaret Dixon Bowie : Nursing  Sister

C Florence Forbes  : Nursing  Sister

Beatrice Waters : Nursing  Sister

Hilda  Rose Ffolliott : Nursing  Sister

The British doctor attached to the unit was  Dr James  Douglas Driberg, MC, OBE, FRCS, MRCS, LRCP (1890-1956) Second son of John James Street Driberg  and Amy Mary Irving Bell, his wife, of Uckfield Lodge, Crowborough. 

Almost as soon as the Manners Corps started work the German authorities in Brussels monitored their activities. In the first weeks the Manners Unit treated British, French, Belgian and even some German wounded soldiers and civilians.

Further details about the Manners Ambulance Corps may be obtained by contacting William Cross.

Best method is by e-mail

williecross@virginmedia.com