Women / Persons ~ P25360

Elsie Knocker, Baroness de T'Serclaes

Alternate Names:

Madonna of Pervyse
Elizabeth Blackall Shapter

Gender: Female

Life Dates: 29 July 1884 – 26 April 1978

Types:

English
Heroine in war
Medicine, nurse

Note: ambulance driver WWI. m. twice. She divorced Knocker, but kept it a secret. The baron was Catholic, and fact of divorce was scandal/rule-breaker in second breakup, though she kept the title baroness. This hidden life history also broke up her relationship with Mairi Chisholm, the other Madonna of Pervyse.

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Biographies (2 Total)

The Women of Pervyse: The Baronne de T'Serclaes and Mairi Chisholm Author: Kent Carr . Collection Title: Women Who Dared: Heroines of the Great War. 1920
The Women of the Hector Munro Field Ambulance Corps Author: Kent Carr . Collection Title: Women Who Dared: Heroines of the Great War. 1920