Pat Beauchamp Washington

Born Catharine Marguerite Beauchamp Washington in Cumberland, England, she was widely known as "Pat" Washington. She joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in 1912 and went to France in 1915 as an ambulance driver.

During the First World War, she transported wounded soldiers and was badly injured when her ambulance was hit by a train, losing a leg. After obtaining her own prosthetic limb, she returned to France in 1918. She later wrote about her wartime experiences under the name Pat Beauchamp.

In the Second World War, she wrote Eagles in Exile, a book about the Polish struggle, under the name Pat Washington. Sources retrieved here describe her as having received the French Croix de Guerre, the Belgian Médaille de la reine Élisabeth, and the Polish Grand Cross of Merit (military class).