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English nurse and soldier considered a hero of World War I. Born in Poppleton, outside of York, England, in January 1876; died in Suffolk, England, in November 1956; youngest of eight children; attended finishing school in Switzerland; married Yuri Yudenitch (a Russian colonel), in 1927 (died during World War II); no children.

The only British woman to fight in the trenches during World War I, Flora Sandes was a hero of the Allied Serbian Army and as such was awarded the Kara George Star, the highest Serbian military award (equivalent to the British Victoria Cross).

Commissioned as a second lieutenant in June 1919, by a special act of the Serbian Parliament, Sandes also served briefly in World War II, during which she escaped from her Gestapo captors. She later returned to her roots in rural England, where she died in obscurity in 1956.

Sandes, the youngest of the eight children of a vicar, was born in 1876 and grew up near Ipswich in Suffolk, where