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Kate Evelyn Luard
Nickname(s)Evie
Born(1872-06-29)29 June 1872
Mentioned in Despatches
(2)
Other workAuthor

Kate Evelyn Luard,

First World War who was awarded the Royal Red Cross and Bar
. She was the author of two books describing her experiences.

Early life

Luard was born in Aveley vicarage on 29 June 1872.[1] Her father was Bixby Garnham Luard, the vicar of Aveley between 1871 and 1895.[2] Her mother was Clara Isabella Sandford Bramston. She had twelve brothers and sisters, three of whom were born after her. She subsequently moved to Birch, Essex after her father was appointed to that living.[3] She was educated at

East London Hospital for Children and Dispensary for Women[8] before training at King's College Hospital, London, between 1897 and 1900.[8]

War service

Luard served as a nurse in the

mentioned in despatches and was awarded the Royal Red Cross and Bar.[13] The first award of the Royal Red Cross was gazetted in January 1916,[14] and the bar in May 1918.[15] Luard was Head Sister of No. 32 Casualty Clearing Station at Brandhoek during the Battle of Passchendaele.[16]

She resigned from the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve) shortly after the Armistice because of the illness of her father.[17]

Post war

Abbotts, the home of Kate Luard in Wickham Bishops

After the war, Luard worked in the

South London Hospital for Women,[18] and as matron at Bradfield College in Berkshire from 1924 to 1932.[19] She retired to Wickham Bishops in Essex, where she died on 16 August 1962.[20]

Publications

Luard is the author of two accounts of her experiences in the war:

  • Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, William Blackwood & Sons, 1915 (published anonymously);
  • Unknown Warriors, the Letters of Kate Luard, History Press Limited, 2017.

References

  1. ^ the Marquis of Ruvigny (1911). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal. Vol. the Descendants of Elizabeth Percy. p. 532.
  2. ^ The Ecclesiastical Gazette, 12 September 1871
  3. ^ Gazette & Standard 22 January 2018
  4. ^ Green Howards Museum
  5. ^ Maldon Gazette
  6. ^ Luard; Kate Evelyn, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/5, 247; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
  7. ^ "Luard; Kate Evelyn". www.calmview.co.uk,BartsHealth. 25 February 2024. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  8. ^
    ISBN 978-1-78499-252-1
    .
  9. ^ Hallett, Christine E. (2016). Nurse Writers of the Great War. Manchester University Press. p. 102.
  10. ^ UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914–1920 on Ancestry
  11. ^ British campaign Medals of World War 1
  12. ^ WomensWork100 at IWM
  13. ^ Santanu Das (ed.). "colonial troops in French and British nursing memoirs". Race, Empire and First World War Writing. p. 174 note 45.
  14. ^ "No. 29438". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 January 1916. p. 591.
  15. ^ "No. 30716". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 May 1918. p. 6474.
  16. ^ Nurses of Passchendaele
  17. ^ Great War Forum
  18. ^ Hallett, Christine E. (2014). Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War. Oxford University Press. p. 259.
  19. ^ Essex Record Office blog
  20. ^ Kate Luard Unknown Warriors
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