A FEMALE SOLDIER OFFICER.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1943, 27 March 1875, Page 4

A FEMALE SOLDIER OFFICER.

An officer of the First Empire, aged seventy-eight, who has for forty-one years been living on the modest pension of 800 francs a-year, having been compelled the other day to enter the Hospital Necker, was discovered to be a lady: Her name is De Sankeisen, and the secret being out, she readily related her history. Her grandfather, the Baron yon Sankeisen, commanded a corps d'armSe in the Bavarian army, Bavaria being then in alliance with France. She was fourteen years old when her father, Colonel yon Senkeisen, died, and her grandfather, from some inexplicable caprice, compelled her to enter one of the regimen's of his division; she served in Germany and in Spain, and at Waterloo received two somewhat severe wounds; She became afterwards an officer of the second class in the administration of the hospitals; but in 1830 re-entered upon active service, and went to Algeria. In 1833 she became a naturalised Frenchman, and obtained a retiring pension. £he has congratulatory letters Irom Marshals Berthier, Augereau, and Suchet, and from Generol Dupont, testifying to her bravery and good services. Her voice and countenance are quite of the manly type. She received the medal of St. Helena during the Second Empire.