Notable Women In World War 1 Essay
Notable Women in World War I:
-Edith Cavell, a British nurse, humanitarian and spy who helped some 200 allied soldiers escape from German—occupied Belgium to Holland during World War I. She was court-martialled and was sentenced for treason and killed by a firing squad.
-Mata Hari- Was a Dutch exotic dancer, whose real name is Gertrude Margarete Zelle, who was shot by the French as a spy on October, 15,1917. Still unclear about her alleged spying activities, in The Hague in 1916 she was offered cash by a German consul for information on her next visit to France. Mata Hari admitted she had passed old, outdated information to a German intelligence officer when later interrogated by the French intelligence service. Mata Hari herself claimed she had been paid to act as a French spy in Belgium (then occupied by German forces), although she had neglected to inform her French spymasters of her prior arrangement with the German consul. She was, it seemed, a double agent, …show more content…
She grew up in a family which valued public and military service. A aprominent activist in the women's suffrage movement before 1914, at the outbreak of war Evelina rallied women to help meet the threat of a possible German invasion of Britain. She originally proposed forming a women's volunteer rifle corps for home defence to support the Territorials defending the coast. This initial idea rapidly grew into a much broader support for the war effort, in the Women's Emergency Corps, the Women's Volunteer Reserve, and the Women's Reserve Ambulance (Green Cross) Corps. Under appalling conditions of poverty and military oppression, Evelina and those with her, struggled through the winter to provide food and basic care for their wounded Serbian patients and some of the local population. In the spring of 1916, Evelina and the other 'Scottish Women' were released through the International Red Cross and returned to
-Edith Cavell, a British nurse, humanitarian and spy who helped some 200 allied soldiers escape from German—occupied Belgium to Holland during World War I. She was court-martialled and was sentenced for treason and killed by a firing squad.
-Mata Hari- Was a Dutch exotic dancer, whose real name is Gertrude Margarete Zelle, who was shot by the French as a spy on October, 15,1917. Still unclear about her alleged spying activities, in The Hague in 1916 she was offered cash by a German consul for information on her next visit to France. Mata Hari admitted she had passed old, outdated information to a German intelligence officer when later interrogated by the French intelligence service. Mata Hari herself claimed she had been paid to act as a French spy in Belgium (then occupied by German forces), although she had neglected to inform her French spymasters of her prior arrangement with the German consul. She was, it seemed, a double agent, …show more content…
She grew up in a family which valued public and military service. A aprominent activist in the women's suffrage movement before 1914, at the outbreak of war Evelina rallied women to help meet the threat of a possible German invasion of Britain. She originally proposed forming a women's volunteer rifle corps for home defence to support the Territorials defending the coast. This initial idea rapidly grew into a much broader support for the war effort, in the Women's Emergency Corps, the Women's Volunteer Reserve, and the Women's Reserve Ambulance (Green Cross) Corps. Under appalling conditions of poverty and military oppression, Evelina and those with her, struggled through the winter to provide food and basic care for their wounded Serbian patients and some of the local population. In the spring of 1916, Evelina and the other 'Scottish Women' were released through the International Red Cross and returned to