Caroline Matthews
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United KingdomLived 1877 to 1927 · aged 50Caroline Twigge Matthews, MBChB was a British doctor and war correspondent, and was dubbed a "war heroine". She served in the Italian Red Cross in the 1908 Messina earthquake, and in military hospitals during the Balkans War and First World War, and was taken as a prisoner of war.
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Caroline Twigge Matthews, MBChB was a British doctor and war correspondent, and was dubbed a "war heroine". She served in the Italian Red Cross in the 1908 Messina earthquake, and in military hospitals during the Balkans War and First World War, and was taken as a prisoner of war. She was awarded King Victor Emmanuel's Medal, the Italian Red Cross Medal, King Victor Emmanuel's Commemoration Medal and the Montenegrin Order of Danilo. When she died, the press said she was "The Florence Nightingale of the Balkans."
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