Dora Frances Livermore volunteered as a nurse and worked in France and Belgium for three years.
The Livermore family was well-to-do; her father was an India rubber manufacturer. Dora was born and grew up in London. But at the outbreak of war the family was in Reigate. Her sister Marjorie had married into the Crow family of Shellwood Manor and was living in Harrow Road West, Dorking.
At the age of 30 Dora joined the British Red Cross. From May 1916 to April 1919 she served in France and Flanders with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service. When the
war ended she nursed German prisoners of war in hospital camps in France.
Dora never returned to a settled life. After the war she became a missionary nurse in India. She also travelled the world for pleasure, staying with her sister at Brasted in Westcott Road whenever she was back in England.
Dora Livermore’s wartime scrapbooks offer a fascinating glimpse of life in military hospitals and POW camps.
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