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Flora Sandes

    The only British woman to officially serve as a soldier in World War I, her experiences led to her formal enlistment in the Serbian army. Rising to the rank of Sergeant Major during the war and later Captain, her unique perspective was forged in the crucible of conflict. These profound experiences undoubtedly shape her narrative voice and literary contributions.

    An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army
    • The Shelf2Life WWI Memoirs Collection is an engaging set of pre-1923 materials that describe life during the Great War through memoirs, letters and diaries. Poignant personal narratives from soldiers, doctors and nurses on the front lines to munitions workers and land girls on the home front, offer invaluable insight into the sacrifices men and women made for their country. Photographs and illustrations intensify stories of struggle and survival from the trenches, hospitals, prison camps and battlefields. The WWI Memoirs Collection captures the pride and fear of the war as experienced by combatants and non-combatants alike and provides historians, researchers and students extensive perspective on individual emotional responses to the war.

      An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army