About Joan Whittington
Lived 1907 – 1980 (aged 73). Joan Whittington was a British nurse and humanitarian.
Cicely Joan Whittington CBE (21 January 1907 – 23 March 1980) was an English Red Cross aid worker.
Work during WWII Whittington joined the Red Cross in 1928. At the start of World War II, aged 32, she became a voluntary nursing assistant and was sent to Cairo, Egypt.
Post-war achievements 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.
Whittington died in Henley, Oxfordshire, aged 73.
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Who was Joan Whittington?
English aid worker (1907–1980)
When was Joan Whittington born?
Joan Whittington was born on 21 January 1907.
When did Joan Whittington die?
Joan Whittington died on 23 March 1980.
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Joan Whittington was a nurse and humanitarian.
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Joan Whittington was British.
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