Role: St. John Ambulance volunteer, Sergeant Major, Captain
Flora Sandes was a British woman who served as an officer of the Royal Serbian Army in World War One. She was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War One. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she travelled to the Kingdom of Serbia, where she was welcomed and formally enrolled in the Serbian army. She was subsequently promoted to the rank of Sergeant major, and, after the war, to Captain. She was decorated with seven medals.
