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het verhaal van "Elsie and Mairi go to war"
Elsie Knocker, later Baroness de T'Serclaes, was a British nurse and ambulance driver in World War I who, together with her friend Mairi Chisholm, won numerous medals for bravery and for saving the lives of thousands of soldiers on the Western Front in Belgium. Dubbed "The Madonnas of Pervyse" by the press.
In November 2014 a statue of Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm was unveiled in the garden of the Hotel Ariane in Ypres, Belgium