Other name: Ida Marjorie Judith Carmel
Place of birth: Strand, London
Year of birth: 26th August 1912
Date of arrival: 9th October 1936 - enrolled in the BB 9th September 1937
Date of departure: December 1938
Date of death: 27th November 1965 - Tanzania
Comments: Address given as; Mother, 192, Sloan Street, London. Daughter of a Labour MP, and brother of David Guest of the BB. Nurse. Travelled to Spain with Gerald Shirlaw (known as Gerry Steele in Spain) with SMAC. Worked with the XIII IB from August 1937.
Returned on the hospital train with the British wounded. Later worked for the World Health Organisation, and was killed in a car crash in Tanzania in 1965.
Source: IBA Box D-7 File A/2 & Box D-7 File A/1, RGASPI 545/6/40/106 & 545/6/91/100 & 545/6/144/7-15.
"The Signal Was Spain: The Aid Spain Movement in Britain 1936-39" by Jim Fyrth
