Kate Evelyn Luard
1872–1962 (age 90)
Biography
Kate Evelyn Luard served as a nurse through the Boer War and both world wars, earning respect for her courage and her unflinching war diaries that later reached wide readership. Her books, including Field Hospital Sketches, balance grim realism with compassion, ensuring that the voices of wounded soldiers remained in public consciousness.
Her dignified service is remembered at Wickham Bishops (St. Bartholomew) Churchyard, where she rests near the community she supported during and after the wars.