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WW1: The Two Women of Pervyse

WW1: The Two Women of Pervyse

FromWitness History


WW1: The Two Women of Pervyse

FromWitness History

ratings:
Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Mar 6, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

During World War One, two British nurses set up a first aid station just a few hundred metres behind the trenches of the Western Front. Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker became known as “the Madonnas of Pervyse”. Mairi Chisholm spoke to the BBC in 1977.(Photo: Mairi Chisholm (left) and Elsie Knocker. courtesy of Dr Diane Atkinson, author of Elsie and Mairi Go To War)
Released:
Mar 6, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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