Captain Sally Tompkins
US Civil War Confederate nurse who turned her Richmond mansion into Robertson Hospital, which had by far the lowest death rate of any facility in the North or South, even though physicians sent their worst cases to her.
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Sarah Forbes
1800s Canadian military nurse
Dr Andreé M Sutton
U.S. Air Force veteran
Ann Geiman
Yeoman 1st Class Ann Geiman founded the first officially chartered LGBT-straight alliance in U.S. military history called GLASS (Gay, Lesbian and Supporting Service members).
Sabiha Gökçen
Turkish aviator Sabiha Gökçen became the world’s first known combat pilot at age 23, and went on to fly around 8,000 and participate in more than 30 military operations. Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul is named for her.
Mary Spring Rice
Irish nationalist
Sub-Lieutenant Masego Mosupye
The South African Navy’s first female engineering officer on the chemical engineering side
Eileen Parry
Eileen Parry joined the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) in 1941. In August 1943 Parry was made Assistant Controller of the AWAS, Tasmania and she had reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel when she was discharged in 1946.
Nomkhosi Mary Mini
South African activist killed in the maseru Massacre in 1982
Phila Portia Ndwandwe
South African activist who was abducted and murdered