Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke

Caring for soldiers, she declared that the officers were sufficiently looked after, and she would work where most needed. And they were ardently devoted to “Mother” Bickerdyke.

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Bridget Diver

Bridget Divers accompanied her husband in the First Michigan Cavalry and continued until the close of the US Civil War.

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Jean Neill Erwin

When the New Zealand Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was formed in 1942, Jean Erwin was appointed to the position of commandant, Southern Military District, with the rank of senior commander (equivalent to major).

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