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Helen Stephen Cowie

Dr Helen, as she was known, specialised in obstetrics and anaesthetics

New Zealander who experienced the wars of the north, the goldrush, pioneering on a sheep run and small farms, and acting as midwife and nurse to a region in the process of settlement, and met all these challenges with exceptional fortitude.

Ethel Bentham

Irish doctor and Member of Parliament

Elizabeth Bell

Irish medical doctor and suffragist

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

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.