ONLY WOMAN “TOMMY"
WAR HEROINE INTERVENES. (Sun Special). LONDON, October 16. Miss Dorothy Lawrence, the only English woman who served in the war as a “Tommy,” dramaticaly interevned during a Hastings Police Court case, in which Maud Taylor was committed for trial for an attempt to murder her little daughter by poison. Miss Lawrence offered to look after the child, but the Court refused to hear her. She then said she would wait till after the Assizes. Originally an English land-girl, Miss Lawrence went to France disguised as a peasant. She donned khaki and served for a fortnight with the Engineers.
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Southland Times, Issue 19393, 6 November 1924, Page 5
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101ONLY WOMAN “TOMMY" Southland Times, Issue 19393, 6 November 1924, Page 5
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