Sadie Bonnell

Sara Talbot (née Bonnell, also Marriott; Bonnell showed great courage during the East End Air Raid. She was driving an ambulance in 1916 during some of the first air raids London experienced.

Bonnell earned the Military Medal on the night of 18–19 May 1918 when she was based in a large camp on the road to Arques in France. She collected wounded men near from a dressing station near Saint-Omer whilst under heavy German bombardment for five hours. She was decorated by the commander of British Second Army, General Sir Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer. He died in 1921 during the influenza pandemic. She later married again in 1948, to Charles Leslie Talbot, who died in 1967. She had no children herself and was devoted to her nieces and nephew. She spent the Second World War in Sussex and knew A. A. Milne and his son, Christopher Robin.

In the 1920s, Bonnell designed and built a house called "Thrushling" in Upper Hartfield, Sussex. After she sold it, she revisited it and reviled the owners for covering her beautiful parquet floor with a carpet. She spent her final years at Dorset House, Droitwich.

At 95, she regretted that she could no longer drive fast cars. She received a telegram from the Queen on her hundredth birthday on 4 June 1988. She died at the age of 105 on 2 September 1993 and her funeral was attended by members of FANY. Her obituary appeared in the Daily Telegraph, The Independent and The Times.