Christian Davies
Irish soldier and adventurer
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Ettie Annie Rout
Ettie Rout gained a public profile as a cyclist, vegetarian, freethinker and physical culturist.
Evelyn Augusta Conyers
Conyers had joined the Australian Army Nursing Service as a sister in 1903 and in 1914 went with the Australian Imperial Forces first to Cairo and later to Greece. In December she was appointed Matron-in-Chief with responsibility for almost all nurses serving overseas.
Elsie de Wolfe
American actress and decorator
Inez Milholland
American suffrage leader and lawyer.
Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse
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.
Agustina de Aragón
Spanish heroine who defended her city during the terrible seige of Zaragoza in 1808
Dr Anita Newcomb McGee
American physician and army nurse
Jeanne d’Albret
Queen of Navarre