Helen Campbell Norman

Helen Campbell Norman, RRC (27 January 1856 – 31 July 1913) was a leading British military nurse who was awarded the Royal Red Cross for her role in the Anglo-Egyptian War.

She was the second daughter of Selina Eliza Davidson and Lieutenant (later Field Marshal Sir) Henry Wylie Norman.

[1][2] She trained to be a nurse in Paddington at St Mary's Hospital under the supervision of Rachel Williams,[3] who was a close friend of Florence Nightingale.

[3] When she returned she was decorated with the fifteenth Royal Red Cross in May 1883 and later that year she joined the Army Nursing Service.

[3] In 1906 Norman became matron-in-chief of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and she held that position until 1910.

Norman wearing her medals and with her nurses in 1897