"This British woman fought with Serbia in World War I" Topic

"Very few women fought in World War I. As militaries instituted health screenings for recruits, they generally caught the soldiers with innies instead of outies. "Hey, um, recruit, it shouldn't look like that." But a few women found their way to the front and fought anyway. One of them, and the only known British woman to fight, was Flora Sandes, who served with Serbia.

Flora was born into a middle-class household in 1876 England. She reportedly shunned normal past times for her gender and wealth and, instead, rode horses, shot guns, drank alcohol and smoked tobacco. She later said that, as a child, she prayed "every night that I might wake up in the morning and find myself a boy." She traveled through the U.K., to Egypt and the U.S. And she joined an ambulance unit before the war…"

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Armand

Not debating the article. My great aunt from Pennsylvania served has a nurse in France during WW1. Sadly, soon after arriving back to the US after the war she died of influenza. She is not listed on any memorial.

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Armand