Mary Morris (nee Mulry) was born in County Galway, Ireland in 1921. After completing her nursing training in London in 1944 she joined the Queen Alexandra Imperial Nursing Service Reserve. She married Captain Malcolm Morris in 1946 and settled in Britain. She died in 1997.
Carol Acton is Associate Professor of English at St Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo, Canada, specialising in war writing, especially that of woman and medical personnel. She first encountered Mary’s diary when working in the Imperial War Museum archives."