Pictured above the Duchess of Westminter's Nurses
enroute to Le Touquet , France
Some Society Angels of the Great War
AN ILLUSTRATED TALK
FROM WILLIAM CROSS, FSA SCOT
Using research material from his book “ Lady
Carnarvon’s Nursing Homes : Nursing the Privileged in Wartime and Peace”
ISBN 978-1-905914-3-6 (2011) William Cross explores and appraises the
brave contribution made by several woman aristocrats of High Society
in nursing the wounded during the Great War both at home and
in the theatres of war. Among the ladies featured are:
Margaret ( Nellie ) Ogilvy Hozier, later Mrs Bertram
Romilly ( 1888-1955) “ one of the first women to join a party of doctors
and nurses to Belgium in August 1914 in time to help with the carnage of
Mons.” Nellie was the sister in law of Winston Churchill.
Millicent Leveson Gower, Dowager Duchess of
Sutherland ( 1867-1955) and her sister Lady Angela Forbes (
1876-1950) ( fictionalised in the TV series ‘ The Monocled
Mutineeer’,) who established respectively
hospitals “ the camp in the oatfield” at Bourbourg ( near Dunkirk)
and soldiers’ canteens ( Angelinas) at Boulogne and the British Soldiers’
Buffets near Estaples, France.
Constance, ( ‘Shelagh ‘ Cornwallis-West), Duchess
of Westminster, ( 1876-1970) who established a large military
hospital at Le Touquet , France, where some pioneering work was done on
treating cases of shell shock.
Contact William Cross by e-mail
williecross@virginmedia.com
This talk was successfully launched at Newport 26 March, 2015 .
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