British Red Cross

One of NM 's favourite activities in New Zealand was gardening; her terraced garden, with a wealth of English trees and roses and some native plants, became a show place. During the war NM

As a VAD—that is, a volunteer nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment —CO was stationed close to the lines in France. Here she worked for the British Red Cross until after the war ended.

CO served the British Red Cross Society for a second term, nursing through the Second World War and staying on afterwards.

CO was president of the Hertford Branch of the British Red Cross Society .

In Hungary Mary O'Malley (the writer AB ) not only carried out her diplomatic-wife tasks of entertaining and visiting, but also worked as a British Red Cross representative for the country.

In 1951 she took a job with the Red Cross , working as a travelling librarian visiting and servicing hospital libraries. She then moved into journalism, becoming a sub-editor on Weldon Ladies Journal in 1952...

During the second world, while in charge of getting care packages to British prisoners of war in Germany, she was outraged by what she felt to be the shocking inefficiencies, delays, and penny-pinching of...

Nearing the end of her life, WM tried living in a British Red Cross home called Meadowcroft, in Cambridge.

An unfinished draft of a novel from the 1940s, Money in the Morgue, reproduces for its protagonist NM 's own situation during the war as a Red Cross driver for an isolated hospital.

One of her over-riding aims here was, through relating her own efforts to get food parcels to British prisoners of war, to expose the failures of the British Red Cross , so that nothing of...