Flora Sandes: WW1 British woman soldier

Jun 27, 2012, 11:39 AM

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The writer Louise Miller discusses the life of Captain Flora Sandes – the only woman to enlist as a soldier in WW1 - with Woman’s Hour’s Jenni Murray. Miller has written a book charting Sandes’ journey from rural Suffolk to the frontline in Serbia.

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