Angela Sinclair-Loutit

The Sinclair-Loutits had three children and lived in Canada, Thailand, Paris and Morocco, where Kenneth was stationed working as an adviser to UNICEF, before moving back to London in 1972.

In 1946 she returned to England and married Kenneth Sinclair-Loutit. She worked for the British Red Cross Tracing Service at St James's Street, trying to unite families who had been split up by the war.

Sinclair-Loutit was the only female member of the FAU to work in Yugoslavia. She was seconded to the Health Division of UNRRA in Belgrade in 1945 and worked with them for three months before rejoining the FAU in Split. After passing her army truck maintenance test she drove medical supplies from American Liberty ships to Belgrade.

When the Blitz ended in 1941, she became a secretary in the FAU headquarters in London. She then was sent to Khatatba in Egypt, where she worked in a camp for 6,000 Yugoslavian refugees, distributing clothes and running literacy classes. In order to overcome the language difficulties her team faced she learnt Serbo-Croatian. After eight months workers from UNRRA began to arrive to take over running the camp, including doctor Kenneth Sinclair-Loutit who Sinclair-Loutit later married.

In 1940, following the outbreak of the Second World War, she left her PPE studies at Somerville College, Oxford to attend a nursing course run by Lady Louis Mountbatten. She was subsequently posted to a hospital in Weston-super-Mare for six months.

Angela Sinclair-Loutit (1921 – 2016) was an English social justice activist, pacifist and nurse.

She was born in Kensington on St David's Day in 1921, to Winifred de Renzy-Martin (née Hull) and her husband Edward, a lieutenant colonel in the army. She was raised in Hampshire and attended Downe House School in Berkshire. She had a twin brother called David and two older sisters.