MILITARY PERSONNEL

Flora Sandes

1876 - 1956

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Flora Sandes (Serbian Cyrillic: Флора Сендс, 22 January 1876 – 24 November 1956) was a British woman who served as a member of the Royal Serbian Army in World War I. She was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in that war. 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 senior captain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Flora Sandes has received more than 218,839 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Flora Sandes is the 1,748th most popular military personnel (down from 1,504th in 2019), the 3,308th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,443rd in 2019) and the 87th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Flora Sandes ranks 1,748 out of 2,058. Before her are Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah, Hyman G. Rickover, Ludwig von Falkenhausen, John Kourkouas, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, and Lewis Powell. After her are Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, Ali Aaltonen, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Nadezhda Popova, and Sigizmund Levanevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Flora Sandes ranks 147. Before her are Hippolyte Aucouturier, Sotirios Versis, Max O. Lorenz, Felix Jacoby, Walter Burley Griffin, and John Marshall. After her are Alfred Stock, Marvin Hart, Nikolay Burdenko, Gwen John, Harriet Brooks, and Stan Rowley. Among people deceased in 1956, Flora Sandes ranks 146. Before her are Jan Šrámek, E. T. Whittaker, Benjamin Glazer, Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, David Seymour, and Albert Kluyver. After her are Preston Tucker, Grigory Shajn, Louis Bromfield, Louis Calhern, César Espinoza, and Fanny Durack.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Flora Sandes ranks 3,308 out of 8,785. Before her are Tommy Cooper (1921), David MacMillan (1968), Lita Ford (1958), Ronald Knox (1888), James Ivory (1765), and Christian Horner (1973). After her are York Bowen (1884), Stephen Gardiner (1497), John Marshall (1748), Justin Welby (1956), Nicholas Ridley (1500), and Charles Winslow (1888).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Flora Sandes ranks 87. Before her are Lawrence Oates (1880), Charles Lee (1731), Frederick Browning (1896), John Benbow (1653), Harry Patch (1898), and James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797). After her are Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), Miles Dempsey (1896), John Byng (1704), Boston Corbett (1832), Eddie Chapman (1914), and Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827).

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