Flora Sandes was born January 22, 1876 in Nether Poppleton, United Kingdom. Moved around a lot as a child, she was taught by governesses. Throughout her childhood she enjoyed riding and shooting, things that boys usually liked and said that the wished she had been born a boy. When she was older, she took a job as a secretary and in her spare time Sandes trained with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps. She left the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps (FANY) in 1910 joining another renegade, Mabel St Clair Stobart, founder of the Women's Sick & Wounded Convoy, which saw service in Serbia and Bulgaria in 1912 during the 1st Balkans War. At the outbreak of the First World War, Sandes volunteered to be a nurse but was rejected as she was not fully qualified, but ended up joining a St. John Ambulance unit raised by American nurse Mabel Grouitch, and on the 12th of August in 1914 left England for Serbia with 36 other women to help the humanitarian crisis there. While there Sandes joined the Serbian Red Cross and worked in an ambulance for the Second Infantry Regiment of
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In pictures she is seen with the men playing chess and other games. In 1916 during the Serbian advance on Bitola, she was wounded by a grenade in hand to hand combat. Afterwards, she received the highest decoration of the Serbian military, the Order of Karađorđe's Star. At the same time she was promoted to the rank of Sergeant Major. Unable to continue fighting due to her injury, Sandes spent the rest of the war running a hospital. In May 1927, Sandes married Yuri Yudenitch, a fellow officer and former White Army general. Afterward Yudenitch died, Sandes returned to England. She spent the last years of her life in Suffolk, where she died in November 1956. Flora Sandes with the help of her units, saved the lives of many people and Sandes herself proved that women are powerful and can do the things that even men
In pictures she is seen with the men playing chess and other games. In 1916 during the Serbian advance on Bitola, she was wounded by a grenade in hand to hand combat. Afterwards, she received the highest decoration of the Serbian military, the Order of Karađorđe's Star. At the same time she was promoted to the rank of Sergeant Major. Unable to continue fighting due to her injury, Sandes spent the rest of the war running a hospital. In May 1927, Sandes married Yuri Yudenitch, a fellow officer and former White Army general. Afterward Yudenitch died, Sandes returned to England. She spent the last years of her life in Suffolk, where she died in November 1956. Flora Sandes with the help of her units, saved the lives of many people and Sandes herself proved that women are powerful and can do the things that even men