Concerned a noble woman,
Turned Nurse.
With the long given title;
Baroness Margo von Falkenhausen.
Aged 27, the German lady,
In the Saxen Albertine Field Hospital,
Worked as a nurse volunteer.
The telegram the nurse had been
Tending to wounded soldiers,
Out in the battlefield.
The Baroness was believed
To be travelling in a Red Cross car,
Near Sisonne -
When bombing came
From their enemy’s planes.
Part of a shrapnel blast hit
And killed the Baroness nurse.
Margo von Falkenhausen.
Became the first reported woman,
To die in this war.
At her funeral the Baroness Nurse
Was given full military honours -
By order of the Kaiser, a medal,
The Iron Cross, was placed
On her coffin – being the first
Awarded to a woman in this war.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1914. Baroness Killed on Battlefield. The London
Standard, [online] 9 Nov. Available at: http://newspaperarchive.com/uk/middlesex/london/london-standard/1914/11-09/page-7 [Accessed: 9 November 2014].
Anon.,1914. Nurse Killed by Bomb. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 9
Nov. p.5. Col.1. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11208747/Daily-Telegraph-November-9-1914.html
[Accessed:
9 November 2014].
Mann, J., 2014. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 9 November 2014).
http://newspaperarchive.com/uk/middlesex/london/london-standard/1914/11-09/page-7
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