Margaret Irene (known as Irene) was born in Witham, Essex, on 14th November 1891—the eldest in the family. During the First World War, she worked as a Red Cross Volunteer Nurse. Irene’s first posting, in 1915, was to the Eccleston Hospital for Officers in London. In 1917, she was in France, serving at the Abbeville Rest Station on the Somme. She also spent some time with the Friend’s Ambulance Units at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Dunkirk, where she worked with her sister, Sylvia. Irene then moving to Le Touquet, where she worked in the No.1 British Red Cross Hospital also known as the Duchess of Westminster Hospital.

Irene emigrated to Canada where she married St John Considine and, after periods living in Victoria, Canada and Texas, they returned to Britain and Brighton. Irene died in 1971 at the age of eighty. For her war service, Irene received the British War and Victory Medals.