CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY
BRITISH NURSE WITH. SERBIAN TROOPS,,.. ."..-., London, December 31.; Tho "Daily Chronicle's" Salonika' correspondent states that the only woman, patient in the camp of wounded Serbians (Miss Flora Sands,.who was ' ■ ■ formerly a- nurse), after witnessing the • suffering and heroism of the enlisted as a private, during .the. 1915 retreat, and won promotion to th 6 rank of sergeant. She participated in. the September offensive, and for three months was in an atmosphere of bursting shells, whistling bullets, and hand-to-hand encounters. • Finally in. an attack on the high crests Miss Sands was first put of tho trench and across the snow-covered ground, and reached the Bulgar trenches. ■A_ hand grenade . . burst close to her, inflicting twenty T five wounds. A Royal aide-de-camp, oa_ hehalf of the Serbian Prince Regent,' visited the hospital, and presented her with a decoration only given for conspicuous bravery.—Aus.-iSf.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 2 January 1917, Page 5
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