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Phyllis Holman RICHARDS OBE (1894-1971)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Phyllis Holman Richards, charity founder, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the BBC Television Theatre, having been led to believe she was on her way to dinner with a friend.
Phyllis, who was born in London, gave up a promising career as an opera singer to become one of the first nursing volunteers when the First World War broke out. After the war, she became the youngest woman, at 26, to receive an OBE, having established the Disabled Officers' Home in London, which cared for veterans.
During the Second World War, she was a volunteer nurse at Westminster Hospital before setting up the Memorial Centre of Help for Babies. The charity, which cared for war orphans, marked the beginning of an adoption agency in her name, established in 1942, that would help thousands of children across Britain and Europe.
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