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Cicely Joan Whittington CBE (21 January 1907 – 23 March 1980)[1] Red Cross aid worker.[2]
Work during WWII
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Whittington joined the Red Cross in 1928.[3] World War II , aged 32, she became a voluntary nursing assistant and was sent to Cairo, Egypt .[4] Tripoli, Libya , Italy , and Greece .
Post-war achievements
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After the war, Whittington began to work on expanding the Red Cross' overseas operations, setting up new branches and continuing her work in Kenya , Uganda , Borneo , Fiji , the Caribbean , and the United States . She eventually rose to become the Red Cross' Director of Overseas Branches.[3] magistrate and Chairman of the Bench in Oxfordshire , and was active in the Scout movement.[2]
Whittington was successively made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE; 1945), Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE; 1955) and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE; 1963).[4] [2]
After her retirement, Whittington appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs [5]
Whittington died in Henley, Oxfordshire , aged 73.[2] Jeep she used in World War II is on display at the Imperial War Museum in London .[3] [6]
References
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^ a b c Thompson, Andrew. "A Story Untold" (PDF) . Exeter University. Retrieved 13 August 2014 .
^ a b "Great Women You Should Know - Joan Whittington" . Jump! Magazine . Retrieved 13 August 2014 .
^ "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Joan Whittington" . BBC Online . Retrieved 13 August 2014 .
^ "Willys MB Jeep 4x4 Red Cross (4007.50.2)" . Imperial War Museum . Retrieved 13 August 2014 .
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