Rank unknown Marguerite Martha Allan
PERSONAL INFORMATION
MILITARY INFORMATION
- Rank unknown (British Army).
- Lieutenant (Army).
RESEARCH INFORMATION
She also had self-confidence and energy to burn. Most important, she had the theatre in her soul.
Fluent in French, she took up theatre studies in Paris, though it was London where, still in her teens, the outbreak of the First World War caught her. She returned to Montreal and trained with the Volunteer Aid Detachment before going back to France as an ambulance driver. A shrapnel wound would bother her for the rest of her life.
After the war she resumed her theatre studies, this time at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. It gave her an invaluable grounding in how to run a community theatre.
In the same conflict (Great War), having trained as a nurse she herself was injured while driving an ambulance she had purchased at her own expense in France. After recovering in England, she remained there until the end of the war, serving on the staff of a hospital that was being administered by her mother in London.
(She was a V.A.D. Ambulance Driver and did at some point attest to the CAMC. Her exact status is unsure)