Role: Ambulance driver, artist
Olive was an ambulance driver in France and Italy during World War One. She was an artist and joined as part of FANY acting as an ambulance driver. Like many, she later joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment unit. Later, Olive was asked by the British Red Cross to document the VAD and the work they were doing there.
Olive began her documenting in the form of art. She began to sketch and paint the scenes she saw around her, both among her fellow ambulance drivers and the medical staff they were working with. In particular her watercolours and chalk drawings often focused on wounded troops being evacuated, and the logistics of evacuation such as ambulance trains waiting in sidings. She is now most known for her artwork.
In 1925 Olive took her own life.
