Gertrude Sanford Legendre
In 1944, she became the first American woman in uniform to be captured in Germany during an unauthorized visit to the front near Luxembourg.
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Dr Helen Mary Mayo
Helen Mayo opened a practice in Adelaide in 1906 specializing in midwifery and the health of women and children. She lectured at the University of Adelaide 1926-1934 and founded the Mothers’ and Babies’ Health Association and the Mareeba Babies’ Hospital.
Alice Stopford Green
Irish historian and nationalist
Alice Glenn
Irish politician and moral crusader
Alice Reeves
Matron of Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin
Frances Blascoer
A settlement worker and the NAACP’s first secretary from February 1910 to March 1911
Helen Brill
American educator and activist.
Ailsa Macvey Swan
Ailsa Swan began her scientific career in the chemistry. She was later and active member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, the Bird Observers Club of Australia and was founding member of the Phillip Island Conservation Society.
Ina Higgins
Ina Higgins was one of the first women to enrol at the Burnley Horticultural College in Melbourne in 1899, receiving her Certificate of Competency in 1900. She subsequently had a lengthy career as a distinguished landscape gardener.
Frances Andrews
Frances Andrews worked as an advocate for social justice, education, and conservation in the early twentieth century.