Dorothy Lawrence disguised herself as a man in order to experience life on the front lines. In the summer of France 1915, an aspiring Dorothy Lawrence dreamt of showing the world that she could be an investigative journalist. She cycled through the French countryside where editors told her that she had no hope of becoming a war-correspondent. Dorothy persevered and decided to prove them wrong.
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Edith Cavell was a British nurse serving in Belgium who was sentenced to death for assisting prisoners to escape during WW1.
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