Evelyn Grace Harcourt

Female

Birth date: 6.7.1894 y.

Cabin: Nurses-20

Biography:

Evelyn Grace Harcourt | Age: 22 | Role: V.A.D. Nurse | Posting: HMHS Britannic (1916) | Affiliation: British Red Cross

Born in London to Colonel Arthur Harcourt, a disciplined army officer, and Margaret, known for her charity work, Evelyn grew up amid duty, faith, and refinement. Eldest of three children, with a younger brother Henry and sister Clara, she was expected to marry well and live comfortably — not trade silk gloves for bandages. Yet when war broke out, she could not stand idle while others suffered. Against her father’s protests and her mother’s quiet fears, she joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment in 1915.

Evelyn trained in English convalescent hospitals before volunteering aboard HMHS Britannic. The ship’s endless corridors and wards have become her world — the hum of engines, the smell of antiseptic, the cries of the wounded. Despite exhaustion, she carries herself with quiet grace. Her chestnut-brown hair is pinned beneath her nurse’s cap, stray locks framing a face marked by both warmth and weariness. Hazel-green eyes reflect someone who has seen too much yet refuses to lose hope. Her uniform is crisp but often bears the day’s labor: a smear of iodine or a wrinkle from rushing between cots.

Compassionate, brave, and empathetic, Evelyn believes courage is steady hands, kind words, and the choice to keep caring when the world is cruel. Calm under pressure, she rarely raises her voice but carries the quiet weight of her patients’ suffering, recording their names and stories in a small leather journal she keeps close.

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