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Evelina Haverfield was the daughter of the 3rd Lord Arbinger. An excellent horsewomen, she accompanied her army officer husband to South Africa when he fought in the Boer War. An early member of the National Union of Suffrage Societies she later joined the Women's Social and Political Union and was imprisoned for taking part in its militant campaign.
On the outbreak of the First World War, Haverfield supported the decision by Emmeline Pankhurst, to help Britain's war effort. In 1914 she founded the Women's Emergency Corps, an organisation which helped organize women to become doctors, nurses and motorcycle messengers. Appointed as Commandant in Chief of the Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps, in August, 1916, went with Dr. Else Inglis and the Scottish Women's Hospital Units to Serbia.
Haverfield was appointed head of the transport column but she left the post after a disagreement with Dr. Inglis.
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(1) Dr. Elsie Inglis reported on why Evelina Haverfield resigned.
Some of the girls had not had a change of underclothing during the retreat. I tried to make Mrs. Haverfield see that she was working for failure along those lines, and that the fact that men don't take off their clothes for a fortnight in the trenches had nothing whatever to do with women's army ambulance work. I took one case of flagrant injustice and make her see that you can be a beast but you must be a just beast.
(2) Dr. Elsie Inglis, letter to the London Committee.
Notwithstanding these difficulties the work the Transport has accomplished is wonderful - and the work has been possible mainly owing to the staying power and grit of its Commandant. She is not a person easily beaten either by internal or external difficulties... I hope the Committee will realize that though Mrs. Haverfield and I differed over the plans for the future, there isn't a particle of ill-feeling between us. Mrs. Haverfield is as generous and open-minded and as ready to face facts as she always was. All we either of us care about is the success of the unit - and our ideas differ... The Committee must decide between us! - Anyhow they may be thoroughly proud of the work the Transport has accomplished.
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