His name is "Bob"
04 October 2004. Inspired by .
‘I'll see what an ordinary English girl, without credentials or money, can accomplish’
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's Life of the Week is the bowel-loosening story of Dorothy Lawrence, the first woman to try and be a front-line journo - and the only woman to end up in the trenches of WW1.
Her story's here, along with more info and a photo of her in her female garb over here. I wish she had been allowed to report. Gender be damned - that girl had more cojones than me.
Next task: finding a copy of her book...