author
Kate John Finzi
1890–1958
A British Red Cross volunteer and wartime memoirist, remembered for a vivid firsthand account of hospital work near the Western Front during the first years of World War I.
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About the author
Born in London on February 28, 1890, Kate John Finzi served as an English nurse with the British Red Cross after going to Belgium in 1914. Her best-known book, Eighteen Months in the War Zone, grew out of the diary she kept while working close to the fighting and offers a direct, personal view of the strain, chaos, and humanity of wartime medical work.
Available sources agree that she returned to England in February 1916, and later married Alexander Laidlaw Gilmour. She died on April 24, 1958. Although not a widely known literary figure today, her memoir remains valuable for readers interested in women’s experiences of the First World War and the everyday reality behind the front lines.