About Emily Blair
Lived 1892 – 1963 (aged 70–71). Emily Blair was a British nurse and british Red Cross Society.
Dame Emily Mathieson Blair, (12 January 1890 – 25 December 1963) was a British military nurse and nursing administrator who served as Matron-in-Chief of the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service (1938–43), Joint War Committee (1943–47) and the British Red Cross Society (1947–53).
Early life Emily Mathieson Blair was born on 12 January 1890 at Boghead, Lenzie, Kirkintilloch, the daughter of Mary Ann (née Croll) and Hugh Blair, a businessman and muslin manufacturer. From 1912 to 1916 she trained as a nurse at Western Infirmary, Glasgow. During the Second World War she was mentioned in dispatches.
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Who was Emily Blair?
nursing administrator
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Emily Blair was born in 1892 in Scotland.
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Emily Blair died on 25 December 1963 in London.
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Emily Blair was a nurse and british Red Cross Society.
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Emily Blair was British.
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