Susan Travers

Susan Mary Gillian Travers was a British nurse and ambulance driver who served with the French Red Cross during the Second World War. Born in 1909, she later joined the French Foreign Legion, where she became the only woman ever enlisted in that force, and she served with it in French Indochina during the First Indochina War. Her service as a nurse and ambulance driver and her later military service brought her several decorations for bravery. She died in 2003. In the history of healing she stands as an example of nursing and casualty transport carried out close to the fighting, in the French theatre of war from the Second World War to the colonial conflict in Southeast Asia that followed.