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Flora Sandes

1876 - 1956

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Flora Sandes (Serbian Cyrillic: Флора Сендс, 22 January 1876 – 24 November 1956) 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. Initially a St John Ambulance volunteer, she travelled to the Kingdom of Serbia, where she was welcomed and formally enrolled in the Serbian army. She was subsequently promoted to the rank of sergeant major, and, after the war, to senior captain. She was decorated with seven medals. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Flora Sandes is the 1,636th most popular military personnel (up from 1,749th in 2019), the 3,279th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,309th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Flora Sandes ranks 1,636 out of 2,058. Before her are Nikolaos Trikoupis, Filipp Oktyabrsky, Juan Martín Díez, Yevfimiy Putyatin, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, and François de Créquy. After her are Erick-Oskar Hansen, Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen, Kiyotake Kawaguchi, Theodor Tolsdorff, Vasily Gordov, and Euphemius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Flora Sandes ranks 143. Before her are Rupert Mayer, Carl Enckell, Mariam Thresia Chiramel, Shushanik Kurghinian, Leopold von Wiese, and Violet Gibson. After her are William Wain Prior, John Mulcahy, Hippolyte Aucouturier, Olav Duun, Walter Burley Griffin, and Ellsworth Huntington. Among people deceased in 1956, Flora Sandes ranks 144. Before her are Austin Osman Spare, Sergei Vasilenko, Louis Bromfield, Doca, Violet Gibson, and Nikolaos Trikoupis. After her are Lewis Terman, Lorenzo Perosi, Emmanouil Tsouderos, Lars Sonck, Jan Šrámek, and Ostap Vyshnya.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Flora Sandes ranks 3,280 out of 8,785. Before her are John Peel (1939), Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400), John D. Barrow (1952), Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), and Vivian Fuchs (1908). After her are James Sowerby (1757), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Bradley (1988), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Thomas Nuttall (1786), and Ronald Fairbairn (1889).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Flora Sandes ranks 82. Before her are Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), Sidney Smith (1764), Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), James Somerville (1882), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), and William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891). After her are Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), Thomas Gage (1719), Charles Warren (1840), George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697), Gregor MacGregor (1786), and Melita Norwood (1912).

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