Maria Bochkareva with Women's Battalion, Russia, WW1
Maria Bochkareva (lying down, centre, 1889-1920), female Russian soldier who formed the Women's Battalion of Death and fought in the First World War. She is seen here with some of the first women to volunteer, together with the first drill sergeants and a nurse who volunteered to go to the front with the battalion
Picture No
11773454
Media ID
46699788
Size
7047px x 4523px
(4.0MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Photograph in Blood Stained Russia by Captain Donald C Thompson, 1918, p110
Date
1917
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