Olive Smith (1880[1] – 5 October 1916)[2] was a masseuse, physical training instructor in the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (SWH) in Serbia in World War I.

[13] The unit was then despatched to the (tent) field hospital in Ostrovo on 6 September,[1] and on the first night there, there were 'star shells' being fired and bursting overhead and noise of heavy gunning began from 5am and continuing all the next day.

[15] Smith died in the night of 5 to 6 October 1916[4] (Note: 24 September is on her grave, as Greece used Julian calendar) [11][15] A short funeral service was held in the morning by staff in the hospital tent and she was to be buried in Salonika, the next day.

[2] Ishobel Ross had noted what Dr. Bennett told the SWH staff about 'Smithy's' funeral: a formal guard of honour at Smith's grave, flower tributes from the Serbian Army, including a red, white and blue ribbon with 'In memory of a generous English friend who gave her life for us'.

[20] Smith's Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone (plot 1600 in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery ) was specially engraved and refers to her date of death as 24 September (see Note above).

[3] Her family installed a memorial brass plaque in the north aisle, Holy Cross Church, Eden's Lawn, Haltwhistle, paid for by her brothers and sisters,[4] as her father had pre-deceased her.

[21] In 2016, Olive Smith was listed among the thousand women who volunteered to risk of sacrifice their lives in the medical missions to Serbia in the Great War, at a memorial service, held in the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Sava, London.