Ms. Diana Kate Chamberlain
Ms. Diana Kate Chamberlain

Ms. Diana Kate Chamberlain

RAMC member | Voluntary Aid Detachment-71

3.4.1891
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Biography

Ms. Diana Kate Chamberlain was born in New York, United States, in the 4th of March, 1891. She’s the oldest sibling and sister of her two brothers, Raymond and Louis. She has a big heart for her two brothers and cares for them dearly during the times in Brooklyn at the late 1890s to the early 1900s. She’s American alongside her brothers but she also has British roots from her father when he moved to New York. During her childhood, she grew up with her brothers in a busy society at Brooklyn where she was raised well by her parents where she dreamed of being a actress while her brother, Raymond, dreams of being a author. Meanwhile, Louis dreams of being a businessman. From the early 1900s to 1910s, she study acting in schools to be an actress, it wasn’t very hard for her during those classes but she made wonderful friends in acting schools. In 1912, she heard news about the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic that her brother, Raymond was on when he was returning home from England. She eventually saw Raymond getting off the Carpathia after when it arrived at Pier 58, she was so relief that he survived but she knows that disaster would haunt him for the rest of his life. In 1914, she moved to England so she can spend time with her other relatives from her father’s side but it wasn’t long until ww1 broke out. Two years later after the war started, in 1916, she worked as a nurse for the White Star Line to help and treat wounded patients. She was assigned to the HMHS Britannic, the sister ship of the Olympic and Titanic. She wasn’t sure about this but she wrote a letter to her brothers that she’ll be fine onboard the Britannic.