Olive Smith

Life and work

The story behind the role.

Masseuse, Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service.

Olive Smith (1880 – 5 October 1916) was a British masseuse and physical training instructor in the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (SWH) in Serbia during World War I. She died of malaria, within two months of volunteering with Dr Agnes Bennett's SWH unit at Ostrovo, and is buried at the Allies cemetery in Thessaloniki. She is memorialised in her home town Haltwhistle and at the teacher training college she worked at, in Glasgow.

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