Pamela Pigeon

New Zealand-British cryptographer and the first female commander in Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters during World War II.

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Edith Cavell

English war-nurse, head of a nurses’ training school in Brussels, where she attended German as well as Allied soldiers during the European War. In August 1915, she was accused by the German military authorities of Belgium of assisting prisoners to escape, and in October was condemned to be shot by a firing squad of German soldiers.

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