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Around the picture the legend reads (in capitals) "He died for freedom and honour", or for the approximately 600 plaques issued to commemorate women, "She died for freedom and honour". [ 1 ] They were initially made at the Memorial Plaque Factory, 54/56 Church Road, Acton , W3, London [ 2 ] from 1919.
Members of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death with their commander Maria Bochkareva (far right) in 1917.. Women's Battalions (Russia) were all-female combat units formed after the February Revolution by the Russian Provisional Government, in a last-ditch effort to inspire the mass of war-weary soldiers to continue fighting in World War I.
María Leontievna Bochkareva (July 1889 – 16 May 1920; Russian: Мари́я Лео́нтьевна Бочкарёва, romanized: Maria Leontievna Bochkareva, née Frolkova (Фролко́ва), nicknamed Yashka) was a Russian soldier who fought in World War I and formed the Women's Battalion. She was the first Russian woman to command a ...
In addition, many women were involved in charitable organization such as the Ottawa Women's Canadian Club, which helped provide the needs of soldiers, families of soldiers and the victims of war. [52] Women were deemed 'soldiers on the home front', encouraged to use less of nearly everything, and to be frugal in order to save supplies for the ...
Edith Louisa Cavell (/ ˈ k æ v əl / KAV-əl; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse.She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium and return to active service through the spy ring known as La Dame Blanche.
The missing men were from the Tyneside Scottish battalion and were among 22 to die in a raid in 1917.
Death is more typically presented through images of widows, orphans and elderly parents on memorials, all popular inter-war allegorical forms for death and grieving. [282] Figures of women often represented peace, civilisation or wider humanity. [283] By far the most important source of symbolism on memorials, however, is Christian imagery and ...
Maria Bochkareva – Russian female soldier and counter revolutionary; Antonija Javornik – Serbian war heroine, nurse and sergeant; Leslie Joy Whitehead – Canadian female soldier; Olive Kelso King – Australian adventurer and WWI ambulance driver (1885–1958) Women in the military – Women participating in military activities