After her graduation, Annie, a young Englishwoman, moved to the Andes Mountains in Peru, where she laboured for more than half a century as the founder of the Peruvian Inland Mission.

An article on her award in the June 1970 Evangelical Recorder says of her: “Often alone, but never lonely, our Alumna worked amidst squalor and danger. Privation, difficult travelling and the constant onslaught of Satan were obstacles to be overcome by prayer and faith.”

In her later years, she linked her work with the Regions Beyond Missionary Union and was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II with the Member of the British Empire Award and by the president of Peru with the Order of the Sun in grateful remembrance of her service to his country.

Her work in Peru is remembered in her biography Dawn Beyond the Andes, penned by Phyllis Thompson.

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