Martha Glar
Swiss patriot who fought the French invasion in 1797
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Christabel Bielenberg
British expat who wrote about her experience of the rise of Hitler in Germany
Ethel Jessie Bowe
Australian army matron-in-chief, army nurse and nurse educator.
Dora Isabel Baudinet
Nurse Dora Baudinet founded the Sunshine Association of Tasmania in 1938, an organisation dedicated to providing convalescent care to underprivileged and isolated children.
Wilma Young
Wilma Young was an Australian World War II veteran, providing decades of community work with the RSL and war veterans.
Ellen Gould
Ellen Gould was Matron and Superintendent of the training school of Sydney Hospital from 1891-1898 . In 1900 she was appointed Lady Superintendent with the newly formed Army Nursing Service.
Joan Abbott
Joan Abbott was a nurse and midwife at hospitals in Brisbane and Canberra. She also served as a matron in the Middle East while enlisted by the Australian Army Nursing Service.
Nancy Harts Militia
The Nancy Harts militia, formed in LaGrange during the first weeks of the US Civil War (1861-65), was a female military unit organized by the wives of Confederate soldiers to protect the home front.
Elsie Inglis
Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Catherine Doyle
1800s Irish nun and military nurse