Brits in Serb lands

Flora Sandes

Flora Sandes was an English woman in her forties when she fought in the trenches with the Serbian army during WW I.
Colonel Militch, her commander, explained that he allowed her to join his troops because he felt she would be "as effective a soldier as the Serbian peasant women" already fighting in the ranks. She rose to the rank of corporal and was in charge of a platoon when she was severely injured by a grenade in August 1916. She was hospitalized, awarded Serbia's highest military decoration, the Kara-George (Czerny George) Star, and promoted to sergeant major. She recovered from her wounds and returned to the front.

























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