Dr Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett OBE was a New Zealand doctor. She served as the Chief Medical Officer of a medical unit during World War I and was later awarded an O.B.E. for her services in improving the health of women and children.
Constance Babington Smith MBE FRSL was a British journalist and writer. Having worked for The Aeroplane magazine before World War II, her knowledge of aircraft led her to the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. She served with the Central Interpretation Unit (CIU) at RAF Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, earning the rank of Flight Officer.
Working on interpretating aerial reconnaissance photographs, Constance was credited with the discovery of the V1 flying bomb at Peenemunde, Germany.
In 1945 she was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE). After VE-Day (Victory in Europe) on 8 May 1945, Constance was attached to U.S. Air Force Intelligence in Washington, D.C. to continue workingon photographic interpretation, this time for the Pacific theatre. In 1946, she was awarded her the U.S.’s Legion of Merit.
A Tonkawa woman called “Texas Tonk” served as a U.S. Army scout in 1872; she rode out with soldiers from Fort Griffin and was later found dead at King’s Creek off the Brazos River.
The only African-American Women’s Army Corps unit to serve overseas during World War II
From BBC – “The story of female gladiators is largely unknown. Contemporary Roman writers, to whom we owe much of our historic knowledge, did not approve of women fighting in the arena. But ironically their outbursts against women gladiators give us indirect proof of their existence.
Based on hard historic evidence, we recreate the life of a fictional Roman gladiatrix we call Ardala. Through her dramatic journey, we discover how these young women survived desperate conditions, why so many were ready to die for the sake of public entertainment and the skills they needed to fight and survive in the arena.”
US Civil War soldier – According to the Cincinnati Daily Press, a police officer “arrested a female yesterday who was dressed in a soldier’s uniform.” This woman, known as Harry Fitzallen stood before a judge who “let her go on promise to don her proper habiliments.”
US Civil War soldier who discovered to be a woman after enlisting in the “Veteran Army Corps” (presumably the Veteran Reserve Corps). Her previous discharge paperwork indicated she served three years in the 59th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. On May 24 1864, the Santa Fe Weekly Gazette reported, “Her father had been killed by her side at Chickamauga.” It was presumably her desire to remain with her father that had initially motivated her to enlist.
US Civil War soldier