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Flora Sandes

Flora Sandes was a British woman who served as a soldier in the Royal Serbian Army during World War I, making her the only British woman to officially do so. She was awarded the highest Serbian military honor and continued her service until 1927, also briefly serving in World War II. Sandes passed away in 1956 at the age of 80 after a notable military career.

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Flora Sandes

Flora Sandes was a British woman who served as a soldier in the Royal Serbian Army during World War I, making her the only British woman to officially do so. She was awarded the highest Serbian military honor and continued her service until 1927, also briefly serving in World War II. Sandes passed away in 1956 at the age of 80 after a notable military career.

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POWERFUL WOMEN

Flora Sandes
Born in 22 January 1876 – 24 November 1956)

Flora Sandes was a British woman who served


as a member of the Royal Serbian Army in
World War I. She was the only British woman
officially to serve as a soldier in that war.

Flora Sandes died of obstructive jaundice in


1956 at the age of 80.

Flora Sandes was a hero of the Allied Serbian Army


and was awarded the highest Serbian military
award. Commissioned as a second lieuetenant in
June 1919. Sandes served briefly in World War II,
during which she escaped it from her Gestapo
captors. After the war, Sandes served in the
Serbian Army until 1927. She later returned to her
roots in rural England.

“Flora Sandes.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 14


Oct. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Sandes.

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