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Before going, Henderson had founded the Dundee women's civic group, the Steeple Club. [50] [10] In August 1916, the Dundee Women's War Relief Executive Committee gave Henderson practical gifts: an attache case, tartan blanket, pens and paper, as well as flowers. She thanked them for the praise for her relief work, which she said was due to a ...
Patricia Katherine Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, Countess of Dundee (née Montagu Douglas Scott, formerly Faulkner, 9 October 1910 - 3 December 2012) [1] was the Countess of Dundee and the daughter of Lord Herbert Montagu Douglas Scott who was son of William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch.
Photo: Imperial War Museums The Canary Girls were British women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during the First World War (1914–1918). The nickname arose because exposure to TNT is toxic, and repeated exposure can turn the skin an orange-yellow colour reminiscent of the plumage of a canary .
There is also a mosaic on the ground of two torches, one filled with fire and the other with water. that allegedly marks the spot of her death. [5] Her life has inspired a book of fiction titled I Am Grissel Jaffray by Claire-Marie Watson, which won the Dundee 6000 award. [1] One end of the mosaic commemorating Grissel Jaffray in Peter Street ...
Louise Marie Jeanne Henriette de Bettignies (French pronunciation: [lwiz maʁi ʒan ɑ̃ʁjɛt də betiɲi]; 15 July 1880 - 27 September 1918) was a French secret agent who spied on the Germans for the British during World War I using the pseudonym of Alice Dubois.
The plaques (which could be described as large plaquettes) about 120 mm (4.7 in) in diameter, were cast in bronze, and came to be known as the Dead Man's Penny or Widow's Penny because of the superficial similarity to the much smaller penny coin (which had a diameter of only 30.86 mm (1.215 in)). 1,355,000 plaques were issued, which used a ...
They list the name of every woman who died in the line of service during WWI. An inscription thereon reads, “This screen records the names of women of the Empire who gave their lives in the war 1914–1918 to whose memory the Five Sisters window was restored by women”. [62] There are 1,513 names listed on the screens. [63]
Her first professional job was with famous newspaperman, D.C Thomson, who tasked her with one of the first foreign correspondent roles for a woman at the age of 23.Along with fellow journalist Isabella 'Marie' Imandt, Maxwell was tasked with travelling the world over the course of one year to report on women's position globally for the Dundee Courier.