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Pat Beauchamp Washington
1892–1972
A pioneering wartime ambulance driver and writer, she recorded the courage, danger, and camaraderie of women serving at the front. Her memoirs offer a rare firsthand view of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry during two world wars.
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Fanny goes to war
by Pat Beauchamp Washington
About the author
Born Catharine Marguerite Beauchamp Waddell on January 9, 1892, she was known as Pat Waddell before taking the name Pat Beauchamp Washington. She joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in 1912 and served as an ambulance driver during the First World War. After losing a leg in an accident, she returned to duty with an artificial limb.
Her wartime experiences became the memoir Fanny Goes to War, first published in 1919. During the Second World War, she supported the Polish forces in Britain and wrote Eagles in Exile in 1944. She died on December 25, 1972, in Cumberland.