Miss Jessica Borthwick aka Nell Foy
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Miss Jessica Borthwick aka Nell Foy
Miss Jessica Borthwick (1888-1946), aka Nell Foy, sculptor, camera woman and one of the first nurses in France during the First world War. She served as an ambulance worker on the Western front, where she was wounded by a shell and made an honorary corporal by the Belgians. She helped refugees escape Ostend by boat, ferrying them in her steam yacht, the Grace Darling. She spent the latter part of the war in Britain, establishing of doll-making factory. She is pictured at the doll factory in Chelsea. Run entirely by women, it freed men for war service and captured much of the trade annexed by Germany. Date: 1916
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