Violet Tillard
/Overview
Violet “Tilly” Tillard born Madras, British India December 29, 1874 (d. 1922). British nurse; Quaker; pacifist; suffragist. Imprisoned 60 days for removing women’s grille in Parliament, 1908. Opposed Great War. Ran No Conscription Fellowship, 1918; spent 61 days in Holloway Prison for refusal to reveal printers of No Conscription newsletter, 1918. Delivered postwar famine relief to Germany and Russia. Died of typhus, Ukraine.
Quotations
“One feels horrible to live in such good conditions when the people are literally starving at our doors—a boy of sixteen lies dead a few yards away. . . It isn’t so harrowing to see them lying dead. They suffer no more. It is the doomed shadows one sees around the streets and in the homes that are most horrible.” (Wikipedia citing Sybil Oldfield; photo menwhosaidno.org)