St. Nicholas's, Folkestone Château Lutry, Switzerland
Years active
September 1914 – March 1918
Medical career
Profession
Nurse
Institutions
Children's Hip Hospital, Sevenoaks Queen Charlotte's Hospital Munro Ambulance Corps
Awards
Order of Léopold II (1915), Military Medal (1917), Order of St. John of Jerusalem (1918)
Elsie Knocker, later Baroness de T'Serclaes, MM, OStJ (née Elizabeth Blackall Shapter; 29 July 1884 – 26 April 1978) was a British nurse and ambulance driver in World War I who, together with her friend Mairi Chisholm, won numerous medals for bravery and for saving the lives of thousands of soldiers on the Western Front in Belgium. Dubbed "The Madonnas of Pervyse" by the press,[1][2] the two were among the most photographed women of the war.
^Albrinck, Meg (1999). Crossing No Man's Land: Gender Confusion and Genre Disruption in British Women's War Narratives. University of Wisconsin–Madison. p. 160.
^Brown, Malcolm (1991). The Imperial War Museum Book of the First World War. Sidgwick & Jackson. pp. 186–189. ISBN 978-0-283-99946-8.
ElsieKnocker, later Baroness de T'Serclaes, MM, OStJ (née Elizabeth Blackall Shapter; 29 July 1884 – 26 April 1978) was a British nurse and ambulance...
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situated near the Yser Front and was destroyed. Two British nurses, ElsieKnocker and Mairi Chisholm, became known as "The Madonnas of Pervyse" in the...
ambulance driver in the First World War. She, together with her friend ElsieKnocker, won numerous medals for bravery and for saving the lives of thousands...
four times. Lady Dorothie Feilding, first woman to be awarded the MM. ElsieKnocker, British volunteer nurse and ambulance driver. Norman Washington Manley...
writer May Sinclair, British heiress Lady Dorothie Feilding, and nurses ElsieKnocker and Mairi Chisholm. "May Sinclair and the First World War". nationalhumanitiescenter...
Sevenoaks 1616 until his death Thomas Graham Jackson (1835-1924), architect ElsieKnocker, M. M. (1884-1978), British nurse, author and Heroine of Pervyse Jeffery...
(founded by Dr Hector Munro), an all-volunteer unit which included ElsieKnocker and Mairi Chisholm. This corps, comprising a convoy of motor ambulances...
Submerged Escape Apparatus used by submarine crews in the Second World War. ElsieKnocker later Baroness de T'Serclaes, MM, OStJ (1884–1978) nurse and ambulance...
Serbia Dr Mabel Jones [citation needed] Mairi Chisholm, served with ElsieKnocker as a nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front in Belgium. Jeanne...
a charitable organization (which included Lady Dorothie Feilding, ElsieKnocker and Mairi Chisholm) that aided wounded Belgian soldiers on the Western...
Marilyn Elsie Imrie (20 November 1947 – 21 August 2020) was a Scottish theatre and radio drama director and producer. Marilyn Imrie worked in drama and...
(1999). Major Gordon visited in his spare time the famous British nurses ElsieKnocker and Mairi Chisholm in Pervijze and always brought them canned food....
while the 1912 show had 16,257 entries. Charles Darwin Mairi Chisholm & ElsieKnocker George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland Thomas Dewar...
French scholar and diplomat who studied Albanian folklore (1822–1890) Robert Elsie, Canadian-born German Albanologist (Canada, 1950–2017) Donat Kurti, Albanian...
Elsie, Robert (2001). A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk Culture. New York University Press. p. 48. ISBN 9780814722145. Elsie (2001)...
first three sentences with varying terms used instead of "scab", such as "knocker", "stool pigeon" or "scandal monger". Those newspapers did not attribute...
attached to the rear wall were used by the occupier to tell the mine's "knocker up" when they wished to be woken for their next shift. No.2 is presented...
Spleen" by Art of Noise "The Newgate Wind" by The Bevis Frond "Newgate's Knocker" by Jools Holland "Newington" (hymn tune by William Maclagan) "Newington...
Director, East African Standard, Kenya. Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Michael Knocker, Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. For public services in the Federation...
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