Elizabeth Parrish Starr

Starr joined the United States voluntary aid programme in Europe as a Volunteer Nurse and member of the French War Emergency Fund.

[4] Starr, Head of Reconstruction of the Civilian Section of the Somme region, was decorated by the French government with a silver medal, the Médaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise.

They spent several years in Provence, and they made friends with an array of personalities: poet John Betjeman; nobleman and aesthete Edward Sackville-West; and Starr's unrequited love, Lady Caroline Paget, immortalized in the painting by Rex Whistler.

[1] At the beginning of World War II, Starr founded the Foyers des Soldats de France.

Later, Fortescue went back to England, to avoid the war, and gave lectures to raise funds to support France.