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WW1: The Two Women of Pervyse
During World War One, two British nurses set up a first aid station just a few hundred metres behind the trenches of the Western Front.
During World War One, two British nurses set up a first aid station just a few hundred metres behind the trenches of the Western Front. Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker became known as βthe Madonnas of Pervyseβ. Mairi Chisholm spoke to the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ in 1977.
(Photo: Mairi Chisholm (left) and Elsie Knocker. courtesy of Dr Diane Atkinson, author of Elsie and Mairi Go To War)
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