Two members of the Women's Battalion, Russia, WW1
Two members of the Women's Battalion of Death, Russia, resolved to fight alongside the men during the First World War. It is claimed that in the battalion social distinctions no longer applied, and that the woman on the left had been a prostitute and the woman on the right was a professor's daughter
Picture No
11773437
Media ID
46699554
Size
6792px x 4321px
(3.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Photograph in Blood Stained Russia by Captain Donald C Thompson, 1918, p96
Date
circa 1917
