Mary Annie de Burgh Burt

Mary Annie De Burgh Burt (1874 - 1916) was a sister in the Scottish Women's Hospital (SWH), Girton & Newnham Unit, based in Troyes, France and Macedonia in World War One.

Burt was one of the Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for nurses as a Health Visitor to Finsbury Social Workers’ Association. When she joined the Scottish Women's Hospital as a Sister, Burt was living in London at 49 Norfolk Square, Hyde Park. On 28 October 1915, a unit of women sponsored by the NUWSS from London left for Salonika left from Liverpool. thumb Scottish Women's Hospital, in SalonicaMary Burt died on 7 April 1916, at the age of 42, and was listed on 24 February 1917 among those of the staff at the SWH, who had died of dysentery. She is buried at Lambet Road Military Cemetery, Salonica, Greece. and was named among over 1500 women who died in the Great War on the roll of honour in York Minster's St Nicholas Chapel Five Sisters Window.