Dead people everywhere.
Dead people everywhere. Forgotten. It's not the largest part of the article, but there were women who served, even if they were not honored or recognized.
Flora Sandes was 38 when war broke out, and she wanted to serve. She was highly educated, fluent in French and German, and independently wealthy. She loved the outdoors, hiking and camping in all weathers. She could ride and shoot.
She volunteered as a nurse but was rejected by the British because she was insufficiently qualified. The War Office was dismissive of women who wanted to contribute to the war effort, though many did. Elsie Inglis, the Edinburgh-educated doctor who founded the Scottish Women’s Hospitals was told by the War Office to “go home and sit still”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/A_forgotten_soldier
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/A_forgotten_soldier
Flora Sandes was 38 when war broke out, and she wanted to serve. She was highly educated, fluent in French and German, and independently wealthy. She loved the outdoors, hiking and camping in all weathers. She could ride and shoot.
She volunteered as a nurse but was rejected by the British because she was insufficiently qualified. The War Office was dismissive of women who wanted to contribute to the war effort, though many did. Elsie Inglis, the Edinburgh-educated doctor who founded the Scottish Women’s Hospitals was told by the War Office to “go home and sit still”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/A_forgotten_soldier
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/A_forgotten_soldier
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