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Evelina Haverfield
Women's Emergency Corps
from:England
Evelina Haverfield was a suffragette but she was also a prominent nurse, and devoted much of her life to helping those who were injured and suffering on the Serbian front. The daughter of a Scottish Baron, the upper-class Haverfield joined the suffragette cause in London and was arrested three times, once for hitting a policeman. When war broke out, though, Haverfield founded the Women's Emergency Corps to help the war effort in England, and promptly left for Serbia to help Elsie Inglis at her war hospital. Haverfield's devotion to the Serbian front lasted long after the war. She and Flora Sandes started an organization to give relief to the Serbian people, and she returned to Serbian territory after hostilities ended to found an orphanage for Serbian war orphans. She died there in 1920 of pneumonia.
