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“It’s a shame we go to war. People claim it’s for different reasons, yet all the same it’s a struggle for control. Holding onto it can do more damage than letting go. Trust me, I’ve had to let go many times.”

Name: Brittany Jillian Carlisle
Aliases: Jilliène, Dame du Ciel (Lady of Heaven), Mère du soldat (Soldier’s Mother), Ange du Champ de Battaile (Battlefield Angel)

DOB: 09 May 1897
Height: 6'2.5"
Weight: 201.9lb
Eyes: Aqua green
Hair: Gold ginger
Notable features: Roughly circular scar on her right hip, about 3" across; bullet scar on the back of her left thigh; several small cuts on her torso and arms; divot in the top of her left ear, about 1/16" across; burn scars on the left side of her neck and collar

Current Residence: Liverpool, England

Employer: Oceanic Steam Navigation Company / White Star Line / Cunard-White Star Line
Branch of Service: Royal Navy; Royal Army Medical Corps
Rank: Captain; Surgeon-General
Command: RMS Britannic (G618), Hull 433 of Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders; RAMC 3rd Regiment “War's Angels”; MV Britannic, Hull 807 of Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders

Awards: Distinguished Service Order, Gallipoli 1916 - coordinated ferrying British and ANZAC troops to her decks while under Turkish fire, took a pistol round in her left thigh while carrying wounded soldiers to her waiting lifeboats. In November of this year Britannic struck and triggered a mine.
Angel’s Wings, Arras 1917 - entered no-man's land a total of 50 times collecting wounded soldiers, both allied and enemy, grazed several machine gun rounds aimed at her head and chest, fearlessly held her march from the med tents to the front and back. Her only wound during this battle was a bullet that took part of her left ear.
Gold Medal of Valor, Passchendaele 1917 - pulled no less than 15 men stuck and sinking in the soft ground, cheating death under heavy artillery fire and above deep pockets of mud. She was cut numerous times while snaking through long sinews of barbed wire.

Personality: Brittany was left jaded after witnessing the horrors of trench warfare, yet this did not stop her from heeding the call of duty and crossing no-man’s land several times in her combat tour to retrieve the dead and dying. Her cynical worldview often isolated her from her peers and was a side effect of what people would later call “shell shock”. While her face hardened because of the conflict, she has earned several such endearing nicknames as “Soldier’s Mother” and “Battlefield Angel” owing to the care and attention she gave her patients as well as the lengths she'd go to protecting them. Britain’s chief medical officer, despite a turbulent youth, has kept her head high and never shirked from getting her hands dirty. Her current role is as the Surgeon-General of Regiment 3 in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Bio: Brittany was often treated as a second favorite by her parents, and found herself at odds with her older siblings Richard, Olivia and Anna in vying for mom and dad's attention. While the world cheered for Richard's miraculous radio-coordinated rescue, hailed Olivia as the pride of Britain’s merchant fleet and mourned Anna’s tragic losses, they were largely indifferent when Brittany’s liner was launched on February 26, 1914. Work on making Britannic the largest and safest liner of the transatlantic run was long and tedious, and in June that year the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia. World War One had begun, and Britain found themselves fighting beside France and Russia against Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Germany had perfected the combat submarine, the Unterseeboot (U-boat), in the opening stages of the war. They proved a devastating weapon when one, SM U20, torpedoed and sank Cunard’s flagship RMS Lusitania 15 miles south of the Irish coast. SS Californian, a Leyland Line cargo steamer, also fell victim to U-Boats the same year Lusitania was sunk.
Both Brittany and Olivia had to stay on their toes whenever they ventured out to sea. They were the largest ships in the world at the time, so if either one were sunk it would deal a crippling blow to public morale back home and leave big holes in the supply line.

Also in 1915, Brittany's ship was completed as a floating hospital. The Dardanelles campaign in the Mediterranean was proving a disastrous failure, so hospital ships and medical staff were requisitioned to collect and treat the wounded and dying. Brittany, the chief medic and commander of the new HMHS Britannic, set out with Olivia and their former rivals Margaret (commander of HMS Mauretania) and Abigail Brown (commander of HMHS Aquitania). Abby was still a little young, so she looked up to Brittany as her mentor.

After the troops were evacuated plans were set in place to convert Britannic to carry troops like Olympic. However, by July 1916 there remained more Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the Dardanelles. So with plans again put on hold, Brittany set out to retrieve the men.

November of that year saw one of Britannic’s final voyages to collect, treat, and repatriate the men of the British Expeditionary Force as well as their ANZAC colleagues. The morning of November 21 was warm and clear, and the seas had calmed from a storm that lasted the previous two nights. Suddenly, a huge fountain of spray erupted from the hospital ship’s starboard bow and sent a shockwave throughout. Little did anyone know the blast has snapped the aerial slung between Britannic’s masts. This acted as a sort of antenna for her Marconi wireless set, one of the most powerful radios then in use. But while she could still send out messages, the severed aerial meant any answer to Britannic’s distress fell on deaf ears. In 54 minutes, the largest passenger liner in the world rested 400’ beneath the surface of the Kea Channel. Thirty one out of 1066 souls onboard were lost, but fortunately Brittany and her captain, Charles “Iceberg Charlie” Bartlett, were among the survivors.

Following the loss of her ship Brittany was still needed to answer the call of duty, and so joined the French Army Medical Corps as a volunteer nurse in the trenches of the Western Front. From here she would travel to various battlefields and administer aid until the Armistice, though Christmas was approaching when she finally returned home to Liverpool and reunited with her family.

Ten years later Brittany was given a second chance. Harland and Wolff, following the cancellation of RMMV Oceanic, took apart the unfinished hull and built two other ships out of the pieces. The first of these to be completed was the motor vessel Britannic III.
Brittany was grateful to finally become a merchant commander like the rest of her siblings, but because of the Great Depression and increasingly stringent US immigration policy, much of the revenue came out of 'nowhere cruises' through international waters. Brittany didn't much care for joining passengers' parties during this time, as the smell of whiskey sometimes brought back the horrid memories of life in the trenches, and injuries that had often gone septic.

When Germany began bombing the British Isles in 1940 Brittany rejoined the RAMC as Surgeon-General of Regiment 3, and stationed her ship off the coast of Cherbourg, France. Here, a small single-funnel steamer ferried British troops and helped fend off the Luftwaffe.

Update 5/11/24: Redraw; Brittany was commander of MV Britannic from 1929-1961.

Description
“It’s a shame we go to war. People claim it’s for different reasons, yet all the same it’s a struggle for control. Holding onto it can do more damage than letting go. Trust me, I’ve had to let go many times.”

Name: Brittany Jillian Carlisle
Aliases: Jilliène, Dame du Ciel (Lady of Heaven), Mère du soldat (Soldier’s Mother), Ange du Champ de Battaile (Battlefield Angel)

DOB: 09 May 1897
Height: 6'2.5"
Weight: 201.9lb
Eyes: Aqua green
Hair: Gold ginger
Notable features: Roughly circular scar on her right hip, about 3" across; bullet scar on the back of her left thigh; several small cuts on her torso and arms; divot in the top of her left ear, about 1/16" across; burn scars on the left side of her neck and collar

Current Residence: Liverpool, England

Employer: Oceanic Steam Navigation Company / White Star Line / Cunard-White Star Line
Branch of Service: Royal Navy; Royal Army Medical Corps
Rank: Captain; Surgeon-General
Command: RMS Britannic (G618), Hull 433 of Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders; RAMC 3rd Regiment “War's Angels”; MV Britannic, Hull 807 of Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders

Awards: Distinguished Service Order, Gallipoli 1916 - coordinated ferrying British and ANZAC troops to her decks while under Turkish fire, took a pistol round in her left thigh while carrying wounded soldiers to her waiting lifeboats. In November of this year Britannic struck and triggered a mine.
Angel’s Wings, Arras 1917 - entered no-man's land a total of 50 times collecting wounded soldiers, both allied and enemy, grazed several machine gun rounds aimed at her head and chest, fearlessly held her march from the med tents to the front and back. Her only wound during this battle was a bullet that took part of her left ear.
Gold Medal of Valor, Passchendaele 1917 - pulled no less than 15 men stuck and sinking in the soft ground, cheating death under heavy artillery fire and above deep pockets of mud. She was cut numerous times while snaking through long sinews of barbed wire.

Personality: Brittany was left jaded after witnessing the horrors of trench warfare, yet this did not stop her from heeding the call of duty and crossing no-man’s land several times in her combat tour to retrieve the dead and dying. Her cynical worldview often isolated her from her peers and was a side effect of what people would later call “shell shock”. While her face hardened because of the conflict, she has earned several such endearing nicknames as “Soldier’s Mother” and “Battlefield Angel” owing to the care and attention she gave her patients as well as the lengths she'd go to protecting them. Britain’s chief medical officer, despite a turbulent youth, has kept her head high and never shirked from getting her hands dirty. Her current role is as the Surgeon-General of Regiment 3 in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Bio: Brittany was often treated as a second favorite by her parents, and found herself at odds with her older siblings Richard, Olivia and Anna in vying for mom and dad's attention. While the world cheered for Richard's miraculous radio-coordinated rescue, hailed Olivia as the pride of Britain’s merchant fleet and mourned Anna’s tragic losses, they were largely indifferent when Brittany’s liner was launched on February 26, 1914. Work on making Britannic the largest and safest liner of the transatlantic run was long and tedious, and in June that year the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia. World War One had begun, and Britain found themselves fighting beside France and Russia against Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Germany had perfected the combat submarine, the Unterseeboot (U-boat), in the opening stages of the war. They proved a devastating weapon when one, SM U20, torpedoed and sank Cunard’s flagship RMS Lusitania 15 miles south of the Irish coast. SS Californian, a Leyland Line cargo steamer, also fell victim to U-Boats the same year Lusitania was sunk.
Both Brittany and Olivia had to stay on their toes whenever they ventured out to sea. They were the largest ships in the world at the time, so if either one were sunk it would deal a crippling blow to public morale back home and leave big holes in the supply line.

Also in 1915, Brittany's ship was completed as a floating hospital. The Dardanelles campaign in the Mediterranean was proving a disastrous failure, so hospital ships and medical staff were requisitioned to collect and treat the wounded and dying. Brittany, the chief medic and commander of the new HMHS Britannic, set out with Olivia and their former rivals Margaret (commander of HMS Mauretania) and Abigail Brown (commander of HMHS Aquitania). Abby was still a little young, so she looked up to Brittany as her mentor.

After the troops were evacuated plans were set in place to convert Britannic to carry troops like Olympic. However, by July 1916 there remained more Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the Dardanelles. So with plans again put on hold, Brittany set out to retrieve the men.

November of that year saw one of Britannic’s final voyages to collect, treat, and repatriate the men of the British Expeditionary Force as well as their ANZAC colleagues. The morning of November 21 was warm and clear, and the seas had calmed from a storm that lasted the previous two nights. Suddenly, a huge fountain of spray erupted from the hospital ship’s starboard bow and sent a shockwave throughout. Little did anyone know the blast has snapped the aerial slung between Britannic’s masts. This acted as a sort of antenna for her Marconi wireless set, one of the most powerful radios then in use. But while she could still send out messages, the severed aerial meant any answer to Britannic’s distress fell on deaf ears. In 54 minutes, the largest passenger liner in the world rested 400’ beneath the surface of the Kea Channel. Thirty one out of 1066 souls onboard were lost, but fortunately Brittany and her captain, Charles “Iceberg Charlie” Bartlett, were among the survivors.

Following the loss of her ship Brittany was still needed to answer the call of duty, and so joined the French Army Medical Corps as a volunteer nurse in the trenches of the Western Front. From here she would travel to various battlefields and administer aid until the Armistice, though Christmas was approaching when she finally returned home to Liverpool and reunited with her family.

Ten years later Brittany was given a second chance. Harland and Wolff, following the cancellation of RMMV Oceanic, took apart the unfinished hull and built two other ships out of the pieces. The first of these to be completed was the motor vessel Britannic III.
Brittany was grateful to finally become a merchant commander like the rest of her siblings, but because of the Great Depression and increasingly stringent US immigration policy, much of the revenue came out of 'nowhere cruises' through international waters. Brittany didn't much care for joining passengers' parties during this time, as the smell of whiskey sometimes brought back the horrid memories of life in the trenches, and injuries that had often gone septic.

When Germany began bombing the British Isles in 1940 Brittany rejoined the RAMC as Surgeon-General of Regiment 3, and stationed her ship off the coast of Cherbourg, France. Here, a small single-funnel steamer ferried British troops and helped fend off the Luftwaffe.

Update 5/11/24: Redraw; Brittany was commander of MV Britannic from 1929-1961.