Recently decorated with the Order of Léopold II: from The Illustrated War News, February 1915
Born
Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding
(1889-10-06)6 October 1889
Newnham Paddox, Warwickshire, England
Died
24 October 1935(1935-10-24) (aged 46)
Mooresfort House, Tipperary, Ireland
Education
Convent of the Assumption, Paris
Years active
September 1914 – June 1917
Known for
being the first woman to be awarded the: Military Medal (1916) Also received: 1914 Star British War Medal Victory Medal Croix de Guerre (1915) Order of Leopold II (1915)
Spouse(s)
Captain Charles Joseph Henry O'Hara Moore, MC
(m. 1917)
Relatives
Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh Henry Fielding
Medical career
Profession
Nurse, ambulance driver
Institutions
Rugby Hospital Munro Ambulance Corps
Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore, MM (6 October 1889 – 24 October 1935) was a British heiress who became a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front during World War I. She was the first woman to be awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field.[1][2][3][4] She also received the 1914 Star, the Croix de Guerre from the French and the Order of Leopold II from the Belgians for services to their wounded.[5]
^The Encyclopædia Britannica: Volume III (1920)
^New Zealand Evening Post (1917) from The National Library of New Zealand
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Women's War-Work" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 1054.
^Westley, F. C., The Spectator, (1919) Issues 4723–4748
^American Journal of Nursing, Volume 17, Issue 1, pg 144
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