Vivian Bullwinkel volunteered for the Australian Army Nursing Service in May 1941 and sailed to Singapore. She survived ‘The Bangka Island Massacre,’ where she was shot in the back and pretended to be dead until the Japanese soldiers left. She spent more than three years a prison camp.
The first female full-time demonstrator at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney 1911-1912. She studied and worked in Europe 1912-1923 and on return to Australia became a microbiologist with the Department of Public Health, Sydney 1924-1946.
Symbol of the heroism and patriotism of Polish womanhood.
The first director of the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve during World War II.
Countess de St. Belmont who defended her people during the Thirty Years War
Warrior queen of the Nubian kingdom of Kush.
Cherokee Beloved Woman and political leader
Shawnee warrior and leader
1800s Native American war chief of the Blackfeet tribe.
Ruler of the Mughal Empire (almost all of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and large parts of northern and central India) in the 1600s