WiR redlist index: Military

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• Elva May Batt/ Elva Batt, (1920-) enlisted in Australian Army in 1941, [1], [2]
• Margaret Maude Berry (1906-2000), one of the original officers of the AWAS in 1941. [3], [4]
• Ethel Nessie Bowe, (1906-1961) joined Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve in 1931. [ [5], [6], [7]
• Ethel Sarah Davidson, (1872-1939) joined the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1904. [8], [9]
• Maude Deasey/ Kathleen Deasey/ Maude Kathleen Deasey (1909-1968), AWAS, [10]
• Lorna Hayter (nee Byrne 1897-1989), part of WANS and AAWS, [11] [12],
• Deborah Hicks, one of the first RAAF female fighter pilots in 1988
• Katherine-Anne Stewart (Class of 1985) – First female Commanding Officer of the 7th Signal Regiment; One of only three women COs in the Australian Army ^[1]

• Maria Caesar [ fr Anti-Nazi resistance member
• Eleonore Hodys [ fr Anti-Nazi resistance member

• Paule Bourguignon [ nl Belgian resistance member WWII
• Simonne Brugghe [ nl Belgian spy who worked for the Polish resistance and later the Polish army
• Laurette Demaret [ fr Belgian resistance member WWII
• Andrée Dumon [ fr Belgian resistance member WWII
• Claire Duysburgh [ nl Belgian resistance member WWII
• Suzanne Grégoire [ fr Belgian resistance member WWII

• Germaine Guérin Dirique [ fr Belgian resistance member WWII

• Marie-Louise Hénin [ fr Belgian resistance member WWII
• Régine Karlin [ fr Belgian resistance member WWII
• Simonne Lehouck-Gerbehaye [ fr Belgian resistance member WWII
• Maria de Meersman [ nl Belgian resistance member WWII
• Suzanne Moons [ fr Belgian resistance member WWII
• Anny Royaux-Claeys [ nl Belgian resistance member WWII
• Monique de Selys Longchamps [ nl Baroness and resistance member WWII
• Madeleine Sorel [ fr Belgian resistance member WWII
• Elisabeth Warnon [ nl Belgian resistance member WWII

• Kurusa Llawi, designated national hero of Bolivia, liberated slaves and led ibdiginous people against the Spanish, wife of Tomás Katari [13]

• Maria Rosa (Contestado) [ pt led forces in the Contestado War

• Vanya Eftimova Bellinger, Bulgarian military historian, author of works on Marie von Clausewitz [14] [15] [16]

• Donka Ushlinova Bulgarian Army NCO during the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, fought with a Macedonian unit in WWI and was an Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization activist
• Polina Nedyalkova bg:Полина Недялкова first Bulgarian female general officer

• June Suyama Potential Tokyo Rose broadcaster during WWII [17] [18]

• Fresia (mapuche) [ es fabled wife of Caupolicán, a Mapuche who fought against the Spanish conquistadors

• Guacolda (mapuche) ( es:Guacolda) another fabled Mapuche woman who fought at the Battle of Mataquito and was later killed by conquistadors
• Mireya Perez First female general of the Carabineros de Chile [19]

• Deng Huizhong [20]
• Zhao-Hong Wenguo [21]
• Feng Shuyan [22]
• Chen Lianshi [23]
• Liu Jinding [24]

• Anděla Haida WWII Women's Auxiliary Air Force member, oldest Czech veteran at time of death. Awarded medal for bravery in 2017 [25]
• Hana Krupková [ cs Czech anti-Nazi resistance agent
• Lenka Šmerdová first female general [26]

• Dorthe Emilie Røssell WWII resistance member

• Miriam Muhammad Eritrean People's Liberation Front veteran who founded the Eritrean Women War Veteran's Association [27]

• Aino Mälkönen [ fi served in disguise as a machine gunner in the Finnish Civil War
• Sylvi Paaso [ fi fought in the Continuation War

A

• Delphine Aigle [ fr French resistance member
• Marie Alizon [ fr French resistance member

• Marie Arnol [ fr French resistance member

B

• Marie Bartette [ fr French resistance member
• Thérèse Baton [ fr French resistance member
• Anne-Marie Bauer [ fr French resistance member
• Marcelle Baverez [ fr French resistance member
• Paule Bernard [ fr French resistance member
• Hélène Berthaud [ fr French resistance member
• Jacqueline Bévérina-Héreil [ fr French resistance member
• Henriette Bidouze [ fr French resistance member
• Antoinette Binoche [ fr French resistance member
• Rolande Birgy [ fr French resistance member
• Jeanne Bohec French resistance member
• Gilberte Bonneau du Martray [ fr French resistance member
• Anne-Marie Boudaliez [ fr French resistance member
• Anne-Marie Boumier [ fr French resistance member
• Marguerite de Bressieux French noblewoman [28]
• Hélène Burger [ fr French resistance member

C

• Madeleine Caulier [ fr female soldier who fought and died at the Battle of Denain
• Denise Cerneau [ fr French resistance member
• Simone Chalon [ fr French resistance member

• Rachel Cheigam-Grunstein [ fr French resistance member
• Claire Chevrillon [ fr French resistance member

• Marie-José Chombart de Lauwe French resistance member

• Mireille Chrisostome [ fr French resistance member
• Georgette Clerc [ fr French resistance member
• Marie Couette [ fr French resistance member
• Anne Cullerre [ fr First French female admiral

D

• Mathilde Dardant [ fr French resistance member

• Marcelle Devilliers [ fr French resistance member
• Madeleine Dissoubray [ fr French resistance member
• Jacqueline Domergue [ fr French air force nurse/pilot who fought in Indochina, the Cyprus Emergency and the War in Algeria.

• Josette Dumeix [ fr French resistance member
• Alla Dumesnil [ fr French soldier WWII
• Josane Duranteau [ fr French resistance member

• Margot Durrmeyer [ fr French resistance member
• Elizabeth Dussauze [ fr French resistance member

E

• Marguerite Eberentz [ fr French resistance member
• Hélène Edeline [ fr French resistance member

F

• Nelly Feld [ fr French resistance member
• Gabrielle Ferrières [ fr French resistance member

• Yvette Feuillet [ fr French resistance member
• Marguerite Fontaine [ fr French resistance member

G

• Régine Gattegno [ fr French resistance member
• Marie-Agnès de Gaulle [ fr French resistance member
• Maïti Girtanner [ fr French resistance member
• Marguerite Gonon [ fr French resistance member
• Jeanne Goupille [ fr French resistance member
• Annie Guéhenno [ fr French resistance member
• Gisele Gunepin [ fr French pilot of WWII
• Raymonde Guyon-Belot [ fr French resistance member

H

• Ninon Haït-Weyl [ fr French resistance member
• Georgette Hammel [ fr French resistance member
• Claire Heyman [ fr French resistance member
• Arlette Humbert-Laroche [ fr French resistance member

J

• Simone Jacques-Yahiel [ fr French resistance member
• Janalla Jarnach [ fr French resistance member

• Marie et Elisa Josse [ fr French resistance member
• Edmée Jourda [ fr French resistance member
• Odette Kerbaul [ fr French resistance member
• Odile Kienlen [ fr French resistance member
• Suzanne Kricq [ fr French resistance member
• Hélène Kro [ fr French resistance member

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• Antoinette Labisse [ fr French-Belgian resistance member
• Simone Lagrange [ fr French resistance member

• Aline Lapicque [ fr French resistance member
• Denise Lauvergnat [ fr French resistance member
• Mireille Lauze [ fr French resistance member
• Gilberte Lavaire [ fr French resistance member

• Augustine Le May [ fr French resistance member
• Yvonne Le Tac [ fr French resistance member
• Monique Legrand-Larroche [ fr French Army general of ordnance
• Sylvette Leleu [ fr French resistance member
• Yvonne Le Roux [ fr French resistance member
• Lise Lesèvre [ fr French resistance member
• Jean Marie Adèle Leydet [ fr French air force gunner who served with the British WAAF and US WAC
• Adzire Lindemann [ fr French resistance member
• Gilberte Lindemann [ fr French resistance member
• Monique Livry-Level [ fr French resistance member
• Marcelle Loeb [ fr French resistance member

M

• Maria-Dolorès de Malherbe [ fr French resistance member
• Jeannine Manuel [ fr French resistance member
• Madeleine Martinache [ fr French resistance member
• Jeanne Berthe Massias [ fr French aviator who served with 342 Squadron of the RAF and as a lieutenant in the French Air Force

• Micheline Maurel [ fr French resistance member

• Violette Maurice [ fr French resistance member
• Paulette Mercier [ fr French resistance member
• Isabelle Guion de Méritens first female gendarmes general [29]
• Eugénie Mettenet [ fr French resistance member
• Mireille Miailhe [ fr French resistance member
• Germaine Michel-Jaffard [ fr French resistance member
• Rachel Minc [ fr French resistance member

• Mathilde Mir [ fr French resistance member

• Marie de Miribel French resistance member
• Elaine Mordeaux French resistance agent who led 200 fighters against the 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion [30]
• Louise Moreau (femme politique) [ fr French resistance member
• Marguerite Moret [ fr French resistance member
• Henriette Moriamé [ fr WWI resistance member}}

N

• Jeanne Nabineau [ fr French resistance member
• Hélène Nebout [ fr French resistance member
• Marthe Norgeu [ fr French resistance member
• Anne Noury [ fr French resistance member

O

• Suzanne Olivier [ fr French resistance member

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• Thérèse Papillon [ fr French resistance member

• Marcelle Pardé [ fr French resistance member
• France Pejot [ fr French resistance member
• Simone Perl [ fr French resistance member
• Maya Péron [ fr French resistance member
• Mireille Philip [ fr French resistance member
• Germaine Pican [ fr French resistance member
• Odette Pilpoul [ fr French resistance member

• Annick Pizigot [ fr French resistance member
• Simone Plessis [ fr French resistance member

• Bella Pochez [ fr French resistance member
• Marie-Thérèse de Poix [ fr French resistance member
• Marie Politzer [ fr French resistance member
• Anise Postel-Vinay French resistance member
• Édith Pulver [ fr French resistance member

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• Élisabeth Quintenelle [ fr French resistance member

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• Mila Racine French resistance member
• Andrée Récipon [ fr French resistance member
• Claire Richet [ fr French resistance member

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• Simone Saint-Clair [ fr French resistance member
• Solita Salgado [ fr Colombian-born French air force commander and national champion swimmer
• Andrée Salomon [ fr French resistance member
• Claire Saunier [ fr French resistance member
• Marie-Claire Scamaroni [ fr French resistance member
• Simone Schloss [ fr French resistance member
• Simone Séailles [ fr French resistance member
• Françoise Seligmann [ fr French resistance member
• Lucienne Simier [ fr French resistance member
• Shatta Simon [ fr French resistance member
• Jane Sivadon [ fr French resistance member

• Régine Skorka-Jacubert [ fr French resistance member
• Lucienne Soubbotnik [ fr French resistance member
• Alice Soulange-Bodin [ fr French resistance member
• Simone Souloumiac [ fr French resistance member
• Christine Sterbik [ fr Army paratrooper

• Hélène Studler [ fr French resistance member

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• Marie Talet [ fr French resistance member
• Germaine Tambour French resistance member
• Madeleine Tambour French resistance member
• Sœur Thérèse [ fr French nun and resistance member
• Eva Thomé [ fr French resistance member

• Rolande Trempé French resistance member
• Fifi Turin [ fr French resistance member

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• Anne Ubersfeld [ fr French resistance member

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• Maria Valtat [ fr French resistance member
• Catherine Varlin [ fr French resistance member
• Yvette Varvoux [ fr French resistance member
• Odile de Vasselot de Régné [ fr French resistance member
• Hélène Vautrin [ fr French resistance member
• Madeleine Vincent [ fr French resistance member

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• Juliette Weill [ fr French resistance member
• Germaine Willard [ fr French resistance member

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• Ziegler Gilette [ fr French resistance member

• Erika Franke [ de General in the medical services
• Charlotte Holzer [ de Anti-Nazi resistance member in WWI (member of the Herbert Baum group)

• Priestess Chrysame of Thessaly [31] [32]
• Maria Spanou ( el:Μαρία Σπανού) a leader of the Greek Revolution of 1821
• Panoria Vozicki el:Πανώρια Βοζίκη fought in the Greek War of Independence

• Ilona Tóth Trainee-doctor who provided medical assistance to the anti-communist forces during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Executed after the war by the Soviets.

• Ozra Asgar Gilani, first woman in Imperial Iranian Air Force, [33], [34]
• Parvaneh Noorvar (Major and physician), first woman to be a senior officer in the Imperial Iranian Air Force, [35]

• Margaret Langsdorf leader of Cumann na mBan [36]
• Annie Duffy ^[2]
• Maire Deegan and Brid Connolly ^[3]
• Mimi Plunkett
• Niamh Plunkett
• Maria Quigley
• Priscilla Quigley
• Maureen O'Brien (soldier) first woman brigadier general ^[4]

• Hava Inbar first female military judge in the world [37]
• Alice Miller (pilot) successfully petitioned for female pilots to be allowed into the airforce [38]

• Olga Ban Italian who fought in the anti-Nazi Yugoslavian forces, national hero of Yugoslavia, shot by German forces
• Franca Barbier [ it Member of the female auxiliary of the WWII fascist Italian Republic. Awarded posthumous gold Medal of Military Valor after refusing to renounce her allegience when captured by partisans.
• Angelina Milazzo [ it Former primary school teacher who was in the female auxiliary of the WWII fascist Italian Republic, shielded a woman from machine gun fire and was killed. Awarded posthumous gold Medal of Military Valor.
• Laura Lombardo Radice [ it female partisan of WWII

• Michiko Kajita Major-General
• Keiko Kashihara Major-General [39]

• Ieva Paldiņa [ lv WWI Red Guard nurse

• Joséphine Jaans [ lb WWII resistance member

• Lucrecia Toriz [ es formed a combat brigade during the Río Blanco strike

A

• Jantje van Aalderen-Koster [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Johanna Adriana Ader-Appels [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Dinie Aikema [ nl WWII resistance fighter

B

• Jet Berdenis van Berlekom [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Jan Dirk van Bilderbeek [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Lisette Bolle [ nl WWII resistance fighter

• Ellis Brandon [ nl WWII resistance fighter

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• Mientje ten Dam-Pooters [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Fransina Dingstee [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Anna Griese-Goudkuil [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Martine van Deth [ nl WWII resistance fighter

G

• Ronnie Goldstein-van Cleef [ nl WWII resistance fighter

H

• Annick van Hardeveld [ nl Red Cross nurse and courier for the resistance in WWII, shot dead by police
• Kitty van der Have [ nl WWII resistance fighter

• Johanna van Hellenberg Hubar [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Petertje van den Hengel [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Lammerdina Holst [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Mimi van den Hurk [ nl WWII resistance fighter

K

• Paula Kaufman [ fr WWII resistance fighter

• Immigje Kiers [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Hetty van Klaveren [ nl WWII resistance member, published underground magazine

L

• Metta Lande [ fr WWII resistance fighter
• Hester van Lennep [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Meta Lever [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Trui van Lier [ nl WWII resistance fighter

• Nel Lind [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Mary Lippens [ nl WWII resistance fighter

N

• Elly Nauta-Moret [ nl WWII resistance fighter

O

• Leonie Overgoor [ nl WWII resistance fighter

P

• Stijntje Pratomo-Gret [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Mientje Proost [ nl WWII resistance courier
• Coba Pulskens [ nl WWII resistance fighter

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• Jannie Raak [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Sietse Rienksma [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Lydia Riezouw WWII resistance fighter
• Lotti Röell [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Jan de Rooij (verzetsstrijder) [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Ada van Rossem [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Letty Rudelsheim [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Emmy Rutten-Broekman [ nl Attempted to join the army in WWII, later joined the Voluntary Women Aid Corps

S

• Hermina Schreurs [ nl WWII resistance fighter

• Johanna Slagter-Dingsdag [ nl WWII resistance fighter

• Joukje Smits [ nl WWII resistance fighter

T

• Trijntje Taconis [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Belinde M. Thöne-Siemens [ nl Dutch-German WWII resistance fighter

• Betty Trompetter [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Bep Turksma [ nl WWII resistance fighter

V

• Mary Vaders [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Ida Laura Veldhuyzen van Zanten [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Gré Visser [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Hanna Van de Voort [ nl WWII resistance fighter
• Mimi de Vries [ nl WWII resistance fighter

W

• Mary Wiedemann [ nl WWII resistance courier British-German origin

• Maria Suzanna Willinge-Sligcher [ nl WWII resistance fighter

• Jeanne Dientje Woerdeman-Evenhuis [ nl WWII resistance fighter

Y

• Kek Yzerdraat [ nl WWII resistance fighter

• Sonja Coucheron [ no WWII resistance member
• Stikla, a legendary shield-maiden and compatriot of Rusla (article currently redirects to Rusla)

A

• Maryla Abramowicz-Wolska The "White Angel of the Vilna Ghetto" saved nuns from Nazi persecution [40]
• Stefania Adamaszkówna [ pl Liason officer with the Union of Retaliation in WWII
• Halina Aszkenazy-Engelhardt [ pl Liason officer for the Home Army in the Warsaw Uprising

B

• Maria Bałabanówna [ pl Member of the Citizen's Guard and Voluntary Legion of Women who fought in the Battle of Lemberg (1918)
• Irena Bańkowska [ pl WWII resistance agent, fought in the Warsaw Uprising. Aide to general Aleksander Kamiński and Antoni Chruściel
• Frank Beatus [ pl WWII resistance courier and people smuggler, worked with Yitzhak Zuckerman
• Jadwiga Beaupré [ pl Home Army captain and Warsaw Uprising participant.
• Halina Beisertówna [ pl WWII underground agent, died in the Warsaw Uprising
• Zofia Beisertówna [ pl WWII Home Army liaison officer killed in the Warsaw Uprising. Cross of Valour (Poland) and Cross of Merit with Swords (Poland)
• Krystyna Bełżyńska [ pl Fought in the Warsaw Uprising and died at the crossing of the Vistula, Cross of Valour (Poland)
• Maria Biernacka [ pl Captain in the Bataliony Chłopskie
• Krystyna Bierut-Maminajszwili [ plA Architect who fought in the Warsaw Uprising, and was wounded
• Janina Błaszczak [ pl commanded a mortar company during WWII, the largest Polish Army command to be held by a woman
• Paulina Bobak [ pl Polish Army soldier and biathlete
• Anna Borkiewicz-Celińska [ pl Historian, WWII Service for Poland's Victory officer, Warsaw Uprising fighter
• Katarzyna Borowińska [ pl Home Army officer and nurse, Warsaw Uprising fighter, Cross of Valour (Poland)
• Wanda Broszkowska-Piklikiewicz [ pl Polish Amy second lieutenant, Warsaw Uprising fighter, volunteered to fight against the Japanese forces after VE Day
• Maria Budzanowska [ pl Home Army officer, subsequently a communist member of parliament
• Janina Burska-Toborowicz [ pl Home Army second lieutenant, Student Emergency Aid Service member, underground agent, nurse, resistance magazine distributor, ran a hospital during the Warsaw Uprising.
• Magdalena Bylczyńska [ pl Member of the Voluntary Legion of Women who fought in the Battle of Lemberg (1918)
• Zdzisława Bytnarowa [ pl Home Army lieutenant, underground agent, Warsaw Uprising fighter, Knight Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Warsaw Cross of the Uprising

C

• Krystyna Cała [ pl Home Army lieutenant, Warsaw Uprising fighter, subsequently a trade unionist, socialist party politician.
• Maria Całka [ pl Gray Ranks member, Battalion Zośka, Warsaw Uprising fighter, won Cross of Valour

• Marianna Cel [ pl Female partisan who fought under Henryk Dobrzańsk
• Maria Cetys Home Army officer, underground agent, Warsaw Uprising fighter, shot by Germans after being captured.
• Teresa Chłapowska [ pl WWII resistance agent with the Union of Armed Struggle
• Irena Chodorowska pl:Irena Chodorowska (harcerka) Resistance agent, member of the Gray Ranks and the Home Army
• Halina Cimino [ pl WWII underground agent, may have been working with the Gestapo
• Hanna Czaki [ pl WWII agent with the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Home Army. Captured by German forces whilst couriering secret documents she was executed in the Warsaw ghetto.

• Alicja Czerwińska [ pl Underground agent, Warsaw Uprising fighter, killed in action, Cross of Valor recipient

D

• Zofia Dąbrowska [ pl Home army liaison officer, fought in the Warsaw Uprising, received Cross of Valor

• Lidia Daniszewska [ pl Nurse and Warsaw Uprising fighter, Cross of Valor recipient.
• Bogna Domańska [ pl Home Army second lieutenant, fought in Polish-Soviet War (1919-21), in WWII was udnerground agent, saboteur and resistance magazine distributor, commanded a communications unit in the Warsaw Uprising. Officers Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• Joanna Domaszewska [ pl WWII agent and resistance fighter with the Home Army and NIE (resistance)
• Maria Donaj [ pl Nurse and liaison officer in the Home Army.

• Elżbieta Dziębowska [ pl Member of the Gray Ranks and Kedyw, fought in the Warsaw Uprising
• Danuta Barbara Dziekańska [ pl member of the Gray Ranks and Home Army.
• Jadwiga Dziekońska [ pl second lieutenant and liaosn officer in the Home Army. Accosted by a German patrol she destroyed the secret documents and tried to escape. Being fired upon she threw rocks at the Germans before being killed.

F

• Maria Fijewska-Dobrzyńska [ pl Warsaw uprising fighter, later an actor. Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945, Order of the Cross of Grunwald, Medal of the 30th Anniversary of People's Poland, Cross of Merit (Poland), Order of Polonia Restituta
• Helena Filipionek [ pl Home Army and [[Wachlarz] officer. Arranged escapes from German internment camps.
• Ewa Fiszer [ pl Home Armt Warsaw Uprising fighter, later a poet and English/French/Polish translator of literature.

• Folman-Raban Chave [ pl Resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto

G

• Danuta Gałkowa [ pl Officer of the Home Army

• Sarah Goldberg (spy) fr:Sarah Goldberg Polish-born, Soviet spy and Belgian resistance fighter during WWII; founding member of the Belgian branch of Amnesty International
• Helena Gostyńska-Tomaszewska [ pl Communist political officer of the Polish Army
• Helena Grabska [ pl Member of the Voluntary Legion of Women who fought and died in the Polish–Ukrainian War
• Halina Grotowska [ pl Home army soldier, Died in the Warsaw Uprising.
• Irena Grotowska [ pl WWII underground agent, Home Army soldier. Died in Warsaw Uprising.

• Stefania Grzeszczak [ pl Home Army soldier in Zoska battalion. Died in Warsaw Uprising.
• Zofia Grzędzińska [ pl Librarian and clerk who worked as a liaison officer for the Home Army

H

• Ziuta Hartman [ pl WWII resistance courier and fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Jadwiga Holnicka-Szulc [ pl Home Army and Kedyw liaison officer and nurse. Seriously wounded at Gręzówka she was captured by gendarmes. She shot one whilst being transported to the Gestapo headquarters and was killed.

I

• Maria Iwanicka [ pl National Radical Camp Falanga and Konfederacja Narodu resistance fighter. Ranked as a colonel. Seriously wounded whilst protecting her colleagues' escape from a German attack she was captured, tortured and killed by German forces.

J

• Zofia Jaworska [ pl aka "Danka". Chairwomen of the Polish Communist Youth Organisation. On the general staff of the Armia Ludowa. Fought during the Warsaw Uprising.
• Jadwiga Jurkszus-Tomaszewska [ pl Home Army liaison officer and Warsaw Uprising fighter.

K

• Krystyna Kabzińska [ pl Chemist and doctor, 2nd lt of the Polish Army

• Zofia Kasperska [ pl Warsaw uprising fighter
• Marta Kłyszewska [ pl Polish WWII resistance fighter, Warsaw Uprising participant and distributor of propoganda. Knights Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• Barbara Kojer [ pl Communist activist and WWII fighter
• Jadwiga Kokoszko [ pl Soldier with the Gwardia Ludowa
• Jolanta Kolczyńska [ pl Soldier of the Home Army
• Irena Kołodziejska [ pl Polish underground agent, Warsaw Uprising fighter
• Elżbieta Korompay [ pl Underground agent. Captured by the Gestapo they tried to force her to meet with his fellow agents in cafes, but she managed to warn them not to approach by her behaviour. Tortured to death.
• Szoszana Kossower [ pl Smuggled guns to the Polish resistance in WWII
• Halina Kostecka-Kwiatkowska [ pl WWII Warsaw Uprising Nurse
• Anna Kotarbińska [ pl Home Army liaison officer and trainer of medics. Arrested by German forces she was tortured. Had to be carried in a stretcher to be executed by firing squad in the Warsaw Ghetto.

• Irena Kowalska-Wuttke [ pl Warsaw Uprising fighter
• Magdalena Kozak (pisarka) [ pl Polish army doctor and writer
• Zofia Książek-Bregułowa [ pl WWII Home Army fighter, actress and poet.

• Stefania Kudelska [ pl Polish Army intelligence officer of WWI and auxiliary service officer
• Irena Kummant-Skotnicka [ pl WWII Warsaw Uprising fighter and photographer
• Halina Kurowska [ pl Underground agent with the Pomeranian Griffin, captured in the Warsaw Uprising, liberated by US forces.

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• Janina Łada-Walicka [ pl Corporal of the Polish Army during the [Polish–Ukrainian War]] of 1918-19, fought at the Battle of Lemberg (1918)
• Wanda Lechowin  [ pl Member of the Voluntary Legion of Women who fought in the Battle of Lemberg (1918)
• Grażyna Lipińska [ pl Wasaw Rising participant
• Maria Łobaszewska [ pl Member of the Bataliony Chłopskie, Gwardia Ludowa and Armia Ludowa
• Jadwiga Łokkaj [ pl Officer of the Polish People's Army
• Władysława Łowicka [ pl Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army resistance fighter. SHot in the Warsaw Ghetto,

M

• Florentyna Madejewska [ pl Polish resistance fighter with the Home Army. Helped prisoners escape from German custody. Killed by German forces.
• Róża Marczewska [ pl resistance fighter with the Union of Armed Struggle, Home Army and Service for Poland's Victory. Shot by Gestapo in the Warsaw Ghetto
• Helena Mężyńska [ pl Home Army and Union of Armed Struggle resistance fighter. Worked in cryptography with her husband. Remained silent under Gestapo torture and was carried to the Warsaw Ghetto by stretcher to be shot.
• Michalina Mościcka [ pl Polish independence fighter and later first lady of the Polish Republic

N

• Ewelina Nowak [ pl Polish Army medic, highly decorated and killed during the Battle of Kolberg (1945)

O

• Stanisława Olędzka [ pl Polish Army lieutenant, nurse and Home Army fighter
• Wanda Ossowska [ pl Home Army courier in Lviv. Captured by the Russian NKVD she was beaten and tortured. Released from prison by a group of civilians she escaped the massacre of its inmates. Joined the Home Army in Warsaw where she was arrested by the Gestapo. Tortured again she remained silent and was sent to a number of concentration camps. Liberated by Russian forces she joined the anti-communist Freedom and Independence resistance movement after the war. She was again arrested. She subsequently pursued a career in medicine.

P

• Wanda Pawłowicz [ pl Service for Poland's Victory and Home Army resistance fighter. Captured by German forces and sent to a labour camp she rejoined the resistance and fought at the Warsaw Uprising.
• Helena Paszkiewicz [ pl Polish woman who served with the British WAAF and Polish PLSK during WWII

• Karolina Pitoń [ pl Polish army soldier and biathlete
• Julia Halina Piwońska [ pl Polish Army officer of WWI and WWII, fought at Lviv. Died in the Warsaw Uprising
• Irena Posselt [ pl Polish Home Army sergeant
• Zofia de Pourbaix [ pl Gray Ranks and Home Army soldier.

• Janina Przysiężniak [ pl Husband of Franciszek Przysiężniak and Home Army nurse. Captured by the communist Ministry of Public Security (Poland) in 1945 she was tortured and shot.

• Eleonora Wanda Ptaszek [ pl Polish resistance intelligence officer

R

• Franciszka Ramotowska [ pl Home Army fighter. Captured by the Russian NKVD she was seriously injured in an escape attempt. She was rescued from hospital by the resistance.

• Zofia Rapp-Kochańska [ pl Home Army soldier and intelligence agent who stole the plans for the German submarine assembly yard in Hamburg and determined the whereabouts of the Tirpitz, escaped from Gestapo custody whilst 8-months pregnant
• Halina Rubinek [ pl WWII resistance courier and fighter
• Natalia Rybarczyk [ pl Polish army soldier and taekwondo athlete

S

• Helena Siekierska [ pl Home Army agent who used her work at a university to steal supplies for the resistance. Arrested by the Gestapo and hanged.
• Zofia Siemaszko [ pl Polish resistance fighter who participated in Operation N and the Warsaw Uprising.

• Celina Siwkowska [ pl Lieutenant and nurse with the Bataliony Chłopskie in WWII
• Kazimiera Sobieska-Stachurowa [ pl Commanded a unit of Polish Scouts in the fight against the German occupation. Also worked with the Home Army arrested and imprisoned, survived the war.

• Alicja Solska-Jaroszewicz [ pl Armia Ludowa lieutenant, later wife of the Polish prime minister

• Karolina Stachoń-Weit [ pl Courier for the Gray Ranks
• Leopoldyna Stawecka [ pl Polish army officer, fought in WWI in disguise as a man and later as a medic/nurse. Fought in the Ukrainian–Soviet War, the Polish–Soviet War and Silesian Uprisings. Later became a nun
• Helena Sujkowska [ pl Polish Women's League ( Liga Kobiet Polskich) ambulance driver of WWI and agent

• Gertruda Świerczek [ pl Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army resistance agent. Aquired details of German missile guidance systems and landing craft. Executed by guillotine in Berlin.
• Stefania Szantyr-Powolna [ pl Polish Army doctor and lieutenant-colonel
• Halina Szparowska-Gąsiorowska [ pl polish resistance fighter and underground newspaper publisher
• Irena Sztachelska [ pl Polish-born Red Army officer and doctor

• Danuta Szyksznian [ pl Union of Armed Struggle resistance fighter. Participated in Operation Ostra Brama. Arrested by the communist People's Commissariat for State Security and sentenced to 10 years hard labour

T

• Irena Tomalak [ pl Polish Army and Home Army officer, rank of major
• Katarzyna Tomiak-Siemieniewicz First female Polish fighter pilot

• Janina Trojanowska-Zborowska [ pl Corporal in the Home Army. Gray Ranks member. Wounded during the Warsaw Uprising, suspected to have been killed by the Gestapo.

W

• Halina Wittig [ pl Home Army resistance fighter, passed on information from her German boyfriend. Later arrested and tortured before being released. Helped Jews escape from the ghetto. Survived the war.
• Maria Wszelaczyńska-Szaszkiewicz [ pl WWII resistance fighter with the Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army
• Bronisława Wysłouchowa [ pl Nurse during WWI. Colonel of the Polish Armed Forces in the West Women's Auxiliary Service (Poland) in WWII. Previously was member of the Service for Poland's Victory and Union of Armed Struggle. Captured by the NKVD and sentenced to death but was released after Operation Barbarossa and the intervention of General Anders.

Z

• Janina Zamojska [ pl Home Army and National Military Organization member
• Stanisława Zawadecka-Nussbaum [ pl Polish-born political officer in the Red Army

• Maria Rodriguez Denton first known female US Navy officer from Puerto Rico. First Hispanic officer in WAVES. Forwarded the end of war message to President Truman. Admitted to the Puerto Rican Veteran's Hall of Fame (Salón de la Fama del Veterano Puertorriqueño) in 2022. Most sources all seem to link back to the Women's Memorial Service article. This may take finding actual service records/death records, etc. [41] [42] [43]

• Lourdes Castro (guerrilla) Fought as a medic for Filipino guerrilla forces and in the Philippine Commonwealth Army during World War Two, led campaign for veteran's rights after the war [44]
• Remedios Gomez-Paraiso "Commander Liwayway", commanded troops against Japanese occupation forces in World War Two [45]

• Elena Chiriţă [ ro WWII nurse and soldier

• Mariya Fortus ( ru) WWII partisan and cheif of staff of the "night witches"
• Militsa Kazarinova ( ru) - Chief of Staff of women's 125th Gv BAP
• Lyudmila Kalinina ( ru) - tank commander
• Mariya Runt ( ru) - Party organizer of the "night witches"
• Serafima Sitnik ( ru) - Soviet combat pilot turned Nazi propaganda officer
• Galina Shurepova ( ru) - first female diver of the Soviet Navy

• Brig General Kestora Kabia assistant chief of the defence staff [46]

• Anastasia Gan, female fighter pilot and Singapore's first female commercial pilot. In Singapore Women's Hall of Fame [47]
• Lim Sok Bee, first woman to command an artillery battalion in Singapore [48]

• Tatjana Pečnik [ sl Army officer
• Mojca Pesec [ sl Army officer
• Alenka Petek (častnica) [ sl Army officer
• Romana Rupar [ sl army officer

• Ruža Šegedin [ sl Doctor who served with the anti-Nazi forces in WWII

• Park Ji Won (pilot), air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [49]
• Park Ji Yeon (pilot), air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [50]
• Pyun Bo Ra, air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [51]

• Ager Gum Akol Commander in the forces of the Anyanya, Anyanya II and the SPLM. [52]

• Remedios Jover Cánovas [ es Lieutenant with the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War
• Marianna de Copons [ ca Spy during the War of the Spanish Succession
• Francisca Guarch Folch [ ca Posed as a man to fight in the Third Carlist War
• Sergeant La Chata Spanish militiawoman in the 3rd Mixed Brigade during the Spanish Civil War [53]
• Celia González Pernas [ gl Civil War fighter
• Elisa García Sáez Fought for the republicans in the Spanish Civil War
• Carmen Temprano Salorio [ gl Civil war fighter

• Charlotte Isaksson, creator of GenderForce, senior Gender advisor to the Swedish Armed Forces, interview, [54]

• Goldy Parin-Matthèy [ de Nurse during the Spanish Civil War and WWII

• Germaine Seewer [ de Swiss Army brigadier

• Songül Yakut [ tr Turkish gendarmes officer, first female district commander in the Turkish Armed Forces

• Dounia Ourisson [ fr Holocaust survivor forced to work as a translator for the Germans at Auschwitz
• Katerina Zaritska ( UK) In the Ukrainian nationalist resistance medical service during WWII

See also List of senior female officers of the British Armed Forces for a list of ~17 currently serving military women in major command positions who do not have articles yet.

• Anna Barker [ de British soldier and biathlete
• Mary Cane (currently a redirect to Mary Cain) assistant director WRNS [55]
• Caroline Hart [ de (currently a redirect to the author Charles Garvice) Royal Artillery soldier and biathlete
• Ange Laycock [ de Royal Engineers officer and biathlete
• Brigadier Shirley Nield, director Women's Royal Army Corps 1986–1989
• Fay Potton [ de British soldier and biathlete
• Patricia Purves brigadier and British Army director of education and training [56] [57] [58]
• Brigadier Gael Ramsey, director Women's Royal Army Corps 1989–1992
• Brigadier Dame Jean Rivett-Drake, director Women's Royal Army Corps 1961–1964
• Brigadier Joan Roulstone, director Women (Army) 1992-94 ( "No. 53001". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 July 1992. p. 12670.)

B

• Ineva Reilly Baldwin (1904-2000), U.S. Coast Guard SPARS lieutenant from Wisconsin, [59]
• Beatrice V Ball U.S. Coast Guard SPARS with the rank of commander [60] [61]
• Jacqueline O. (Allison) Barnes Rear admiral [62]
• Trish Beckman Naval Flight Officer, helped to persuade the senate to repeal laws restricting women from combat [63]
• Jean M. Bennett (military intelligence) Military intelligence director and inductee in the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame [64]

• Sandra Best brigadier general Minnesota National Guard [65]
• Colleen Rowan Black/ Colleen Black, part of the Manhattan Project, [66]

• Ann Bray (military intelligence) Counter intelligence worker, wrote The Spy Catchers, inductee in the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame [67]

• Paula C. Brown ^[5]

C

• Clare L. De Ceu, one of The Sacred Twenty (see this journal article, mentions in this book, and this report from the Judge Advocate)
• Johanna Clyborne major general Minnesota National Guard [68]
• Priscilla B. Coe ^[6]

• Althea H. Coetzee ^[7]
• Christine M. Cook (b 1956), first woman of the Ohio national guard to assume command of 2 separate battalions and then a regiment; director of the Ohio veterans home, Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
• Marjorie Courtney (currently a redirect to Marjorie Quennell), Indiana National Guard Chief of Staff (2016) and colonel (May 2006) of the 38th Sustainment Brigade during the first time in Indiana National Guard history that a brigade-echelon unit was deployed with a female commander ^{[8] [9]} (see also Deedra Thombleson)
• Cynthia A. Covell ^[10]

• Dawn E. Cutler ^[11]

D

• Phyllis Mae Dailey first black US Navy commissioned nurse [69]
• Sandy L. Daniels ^[12]
• Rebecca S. Dalessandro, military historian specialising in the US in WWI [70] [71]
• Eunice Dessez first enlisted woman in the US Navy [72]
• Lynda van Devanter Vietnam War nurse and author [73] [74]

• Mary Donahue UPT Class 77-08 graduate (USAF)
• Janet R. Donovan ^[13]
• Marianne B. Drew Rear Admiral [75]
• Cynthia A. Dullea ^[14]

• Kathleen M. Dussault ^[15]

E

• Carolyn Edmundson WWII poster artist [76] [77]
• Connie Engel/ Connie J. Engel, first woman T-38 instructor and part of the Space shuttle program, [78]

F

• Nancy A. Fackler Rear Admiral [79]
• Pearl Fein Wrote Yankee Doodle Ain't Doodlin' Now, WWII propaganda song [80]
• Vera Ruth Filby WAVES member and NSA cryptographer [81]

• Moira N. Flanders ^[16]

G

• Deborah Gernes US Navy 1st woman eligible as a commanding officer [82], [83], [84], [85], [86] (non-usable source [87] confirms H2O manager is same as Navy Cmdr)

• Ann D. Gilbride ^[17]
• Dorothy Rich Godfrey composed Engineer Girls WWII song [88]

• Irene Goldin [ de American nurse in the Spanish Civil War.
• Robin L. Graf ^[18]
• Glenda Griffin Former s Chief, Intelligence and Security, Office of the Chief of Staff at the United States Army Research Laboratory. Inductee of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame [89]

• Major General Sheryl Gordon Adjutant General of the Alabama National Guard [90]

H

• Janice M. Hamby ^[19]

• Karen A. Harmeyer Rear Admiral [91]
• Lillian Harris US Women's Armcy Corps Lieutenant-Colonel. Lyndon B Johnson asked her to remain in the corps whilst he tried to pass legislation to allow women to hold higher rank. Served in Korean War and won the bronze star and the legion of merit. [92] [93]
• Pauline Hartington Rear Admiral [94]

• Deborah P. Haven ^[20]
• Ruth Hayakawa Tokyo Rose broadcaster [95]
• Judith Carter Henry occupier of Henry House Hill during the First Battle of Bull Run. Killed by union artillery fire [96] [97]

• Martha E. G. Herb ^[21]
• Estelle Hine, one of The Sacred Twenty. Some info in this book, and prior service in this book
• Jackie Huber Brigadier General and deputy adjutant general for the North Dakota National Guard [98]

• Valerie K. Huegel ^[22]

• Christine S. Hunter ^[23]
• Paige P. Hunter brigadier general West Virginia National Guard [99]

• Tamhra Hutchins-Frye brigadier general with the Joint Force Headquarters for the Arkansas Air National Guard [100]

I

• Maryanne T. Gallagher Ibach Rear Admiral [101]

J

• Cindy L. Jaynes ^[24]

K

• Celia Szapka Klemski/ Celia Klemski, involved with the Manhattan Project, [102], [103]
• Kitty Knight US civilian who, in the War of 1812 persuaded a British Admiral to save the house of an elderly neighbour from destruction and later beat out the fire in another home. The properties were later bought by her and joined and are known today as "Kitty Knight House". [104] [105]

L

• Katharine L. Laughton Rear admiral [106]
• Michelle M.T. Letcher, brigadier general Commander of Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command and the Joint Munitions Command [107]
• Rosanne M. Levitre ^[25]
• Myrtle Lipton Tokyo Rose broadcaster [108]
• Catherine Lundy - heroine from the Battle of Lundy's Lane (part of the War of 1812); [109]

M

• Linda McTague USAF brigadier general [110]
• Margaret McLure Confederate sympathiser, known as "Mother McLure". Sheltered confederate soldiers and spies in her house in St Louis, which was confiscated by the Union for use as a women's prison. She was banished to the north in 1863 for the remainder of the war and later returned to help lead the United Daughters of the Confederacy [111] [112]
• Fredericka Martin Nurse during the Spanish Civil War
• Dorothe Kerans Matlack Special Assistant to the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, inductee in the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame [113] [114]
• Patricia Malone (aviator) (1924-2008), a NAVY WAVE, [115], [116]
• Amanda Mathew, first woman to lead a US combat platoon [117] [118] [119]
• Mary Marshall (nurse) and Mary Allen (nurse) the first female nurses in the US Navy (war of 1812) [120]

• Rebecca J. McCormick-Boyle ^[26]
• Mary Magdalene Maga/ Maggie Maga, aviator mechanic for the Navy, [121]
• Charlotte Miller (general) brigadier general California National Guard [122]
• Sarah Morgan (diarist) US Civil War diarist who wrote Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman and A Confederate Girl's Diary [123]
• Elizabeth M. Morris ^[27]

N

• Elizabeth S. Niemyer ^[28]

O

• Mary P. O'Donnell, rear admiral [124]

P

• Nancy Parrish, founder of Protect Our Defenders (2011), the only national human rights organization focused on sexual assault in the US military. [125], [126]
• Karolyn Peeler, judge advocate general noncommissioned officer in charge with the U.S. Headquarters Company, 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Iraq and command sergeant major of the 38th Sustainment Brigade during the first time in Indiana National Guard history that the commander and the command sergeant major were both female (August 2012) ^{[29] [30]} (see also Deedra Thombleson)
• Reina Pennington, Charles A Dana Professor of history at Norwich University [127]

• Ann Claire Phillips ^[31]
• Jane Greer Puckett/ Jane Puckett, involved in the Manhattan Project, [128]

R

• Kathleen Rambo UPT Class 77-08 graduate (USAF)
• Melissa Rathbun Nealy US Army specialist. One of only two US women captured as prisoners of war by Iraqi forces in the First Gulf War [129] [130] [131] [132]

• Sharon H. Redpath ^[32]
• Mary Reynolds (resistance) fr:Mary Reynolds (fr wiki) American member of the French resistance
• Mary Marshall Metcalfe Rexford Red Cross worker and the first woman to land on Utah Beach [133]

• Roseanne Roberts Navy's first woman helicopter captain [134]

S

• Carol Scherer UPT Class 77-08 graduate (USAF)
• Christine Schott UPT Class 77-08 graduate (USAF)
• Joanne F. Sheridan major general Louisiana National Guard [135]
• Debra E. Smith Military Intelligence Hall of Fame inductee [136]
• Jacqueline L. Smith Early female military air traffic controller in the navy and helped pave the way for future female ATCs. First woman to manage an air traffic control centre and first female FAA regional adminnistrator. Founded Professional Women Controllers, Inc which now has 800 members. [137]
• Anne W. Stimson wrote and composed Look! Here Comes Our Fighters
• Barbara Sweredoski ^[33]

T

• Cynthia Thebaud ^[34]
• Deedra Thombleson, colonel of the 38th Sustainment Brigade during the first time in Indiana National Guard history that the commander and the command sergeant major were both female (August 2012) ^{[35] [36]} (see also Marjorie Courtney and Karolyn Peeler)
• Phyllis Thompson (nurse) US Army nurse who commanded an orthopedic surgery unit on Iwo Jima in WWII, was the oldest surviving American WWII veteran [138]

W

• Diane E. H. Webber ^[37]

• Giselle Wilz brigadier general North Dakota National Guard [139]
• Rebecca Winborne Known as the "Betsy Ross of the Confederacy" - sowed the first confederate flag. [140]

• Patricia E. Wolfe ^[38]
• Kathy Wright first female general of Wyoming National Guard [141]

Y

• Maude Elizabeth Young ^[39]

Z

• Maria Zumwalt Commanded 48th Chemical Brigade [142] [143]

• Carmen Melendez de Maniglia/ Carmen Teresa Melendez Rivas/ Carmen Rivas First female admiral [144] [145]

• Le Chan (general), female general of the Trung sisters [146]

• 11th Women's Auxiliary Army Corps AWS Filter Company, [147]
• 505th Women's Army Auxiliary Corps AWS Operations Company, [148]
• 602nd Aircraft Warning Service Women’s Army Corps Filter Company, [149] (US)
• Auxiliaires féminines de l'armée de terre [ fr French Army women's corps 1944-46
• Aviation Group No. 122 ( fr:Groupe d'Aviation n°122 at fr wiki) WWII Soviet all-female airforce unit
• Central War Charities Fund Fund of the Canadian Women's Institutes in WWI [150]
• GenderForce, an all-women Swedish military taskforce working with the UN to prevent violence against women. (in Swedish), [151], [152]
• Katiba Banat, women's battalion of South Sudan, [153], [154]
• Nancy Harts Militia Several units raised during the US Civil War and named for Nancy Hart [155]
• The National Association of Black Military Women, [156]
• Pallas Athene Award, [157]
• Petition of the five million American women against war rape fr:Pétition de cinq millions de femmes américaines contre le viol de guerre presented to Georges Clemenceau at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
• Prajurit Keparah Estri Javanese all-female palace guard [158]
• Protect Our Defenders the only national human rights organization focused on sexual assault in the US military
• Queen’s Work for Women Fund WWI fund set up by Britain's Queen Mary to provide war work for women [159]
• Raw in War International charity to support women in conflict zones [160]
• Suke Kawai Istana, all-female palace guard regiment of Ali Ri'ayat Syah I (Indonesia) [161]
• Undefeated Poltavan Women ru:Непокорённая полтавчанка WWII soviet partisan unit
• Women's Auxiliary Force WWI British organisation that provided auxiliary services for the war effort (agriculture, first aid, supply of clothing etc.) [162]
• Women's Hospital Corps WWI organisation of female doctors who established field hospitals in France and London staffed entirely by women [163]
• Women's Information Officer (WIO) United States
• Women's National Service League Provided nurses to hospitals in WWI [164]