Air Commandant Dame Roberta Mary Whyte, (6 June 1897 – 25 January 1979) was a British nurse and Royal Air force officer. From 1952 to 1956, she was Matron-in-Chief of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

She trained as a nurse at the King's College Hospital. After this she joined Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in 1929. She served until 1956, and, from 1952 to 1956, as Matron-in-Chief.

Roberta Whyte

Whyte never married, and died in 1979, aged 81.

Roberta Whyte

Honours

Royal Red Cross (1949) Queen's Honorary Nursing Sister (1952) Commander (Sister) of the Venerable Order of St John (1953) Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1955)

Roberta Whyte

References

1897 births

1979 deaths

Place of birth missing

Place of death missing

British nurses

Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service officers

Members of the Royal Red Cross

Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Royal Air Force personnel of World War II