In 1940, following the outbreak of the
Second World War, she left her
PPE studies at
Somerville College, Oxford to attend a nursing course run by
Lady Louis Mountbatten. She was subsequently posted to a hospital in
Weston-super-Mare for six months. After leaving Weston-super-Mare, she received a letter from her friend Michael Watson telling her about the
Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU), and she began to work with them, becoming one of the unit's first female members. She stayed at the London Hospital Students' Hostel on
Whitechapel Road with 180 men and only one other woman and worked in the
East End throughout
the Blitz, distributing first aid, food and drink. Her father attended as a witness to the sincerity of her beliefs. When the Blitz ended in 1941, she became a secretary in the FAU headquarters in London. She then was sent to
Khatatba in
Egypt, where she worked in a camp for 6,000 Yugoslavian refugees, distributing clothes and running literacy classes. In order to overcome the language difficulties her team faced she learnt
Serbo-Croatian. After eight months workers from
UNRRA began to arrive to take over running the camp, including doctor
Kenneth Sinclair-Loutit, whom Sinclair-Loutit later married. Sinclair-Loutit was the only female member of the FAU to work in
Yugoslavia. She was seconded to the Health Division of UNRRA in Belgrade in 1945 and worked with them for three months before rejoining the FAU in
Split. After passing her army truck maintenance test she drove medical supplies from American
Liberty ships to
Belgrade. In 1946, she returned to England and married Kenneth Sinclair-Loutit. She worked for the
British Red Cross Tracing Service at
St James's Street, trying to unite families who had been split up by the war. == Later life ==