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British nurse
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Female
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Birth:
1897
Death:
1979
The details
Biography
Introduction
Air Commandant Dame Roberta Mary Whyte, DBE, RRC (6 June 1897 – 25 January 1979)was a British nurse and Royal Air force officer. From 1952 to 1956, she was Matron-in-Chief of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
She trained as a nurse at the King's College Hospital. After this she joined Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in 1929. She served until 1956, and, from 1952 to 1956, as Matron-in-Chief.
Whyte never married, and died in 1979, aged 81.
Honours
- Royal Red Cross (1949)
- Queen's Honorary Nursing Sister (1952)
- Commander (Sister) of the Venerable Order of St John (1953)
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1955)