Women in the First World War
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- 1914: Dorothy Lawrence disguises herself as a man in order to become an English soldier in the First World War.
- 1914 : Maria Bochkareva (Russian: Мария Леонтьевна Бочкарева, née Frolkova, nicknamed Yashka, was a Russian woman who fought in World War I and formed the Women's Battalion of Death.
- 1914 : Flora Sandes, an English woman, joins a St. John Ambulance unit in Serbia and subsequently becomes an officer in the Serbian army.[1]
- 1915: French artist Madame Arno organizes a regiment of Parisian women to fight the Germans.[2]
- 1915: Olga Krasilnikov, a Russian woman, disguises herself as a man and fights in nineteen battles in Poland. She receives the Cross of St. George.[2]
- 1915: Russian woman Natalie Tychmini fights the Austrians at Opatow in World War I, while disguised as a man. She receives the Cross of St. George.[2]
- 1916: Ecaterina Teodoroiu was a Romanian heroine who fought and died in World War I.
- 1917: Loretta Perfectus Walsh becomes the first active-duty U.S. Navy woman, and the first woman to serve in any of the U.S. armed forces in a non-nurse occupation on enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917. Walsh subsequently became the first woman U.S. Navy petty officer when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman on March 21, 1917.
- August 13, 1918: Opha Mae Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps as part of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve.
- November 11, 1918: Lotta Svärd, a Finnish voluntary auxiliary organization for women, is formed.
[edit] References
- ^ Wheelwright, Julie (1989). Amazons and Military Maids. Pandora. ISBN 0044403569.
- ^ a b c Salmonson, Jessica Amanda (1991). The Encyclopedia of Amazons. Paragon House, 18.
