Raquel Bono
The first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Health Professions Scholarship Program in 1983.
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Barbara Rainey
The first woman pilot in the Navy, Lt. Cmdr. Rainey was commissioned in 1970. On July 13, 1982, she was killed in an aircraft accident while training another pilot.
Frances Hook
She and her brother, orphans, enlisted together early in the US Civil War.
Loreta Velazquez
Loreta Velazquez published her memoirs in 1876. She served the Confederacy as Lt. Harry Buford, a self-financed soldier not officially attached to any regiment.
Mary Owens
US Civil War soldier Mary Owens, discovered to be a woman after she was wounded in the arm, returned to her Pennsylvania home to a warm reception and press coverage. She had served for eighteen months under the alias John Evans.
Renée Bordereau
French heroine known as the “Military Heroine of La Vendée,” who later wrote and published her autobiography.
Luisa Cáceres Díaz de Arismendi
Venezuelan independence patriot
Annie Ina Laidlaw
Annie Laidlow served in India with the Australian Army Nursing Service during WWI. Between the wars Laidlow continued to work at the Royal Children’s Hospital, rising to the position of lady superintendent of the Orthopaedic Section. When the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service was established in 1942, Laidlow was appointed superintending sister and head of the service.
Annie Moriah Sage
Annie Moriah Sage’s distinguished military nursing career in the Second World War included the introduction of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service Training Scheme and she was closely involved in the planning and establishment of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps as an integral part of the Australian Regular Army and the Citizen Military Forces.
Audrey Cahn
In 1929 she completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc) at the University of Melbourne, returning in 1937 to undertake a Diploma in Dietetics. Cahn returned to the university yet again, in 1947, when she commenced a 21 year career lecturing in dietetics.