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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 “the Madonnas of Pervyse”. Mairi Chisholm spoke to the ±«Óătv 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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