page_title: Flora Sandes
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Flora Sandes / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: British Heroines of the First World War in Serbia. Flora Sandes
context_page_description: Flora Sandes was a British woman who served as an officer of the Royal Serbian Army in World War I. She was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in WWI. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she travelled to the Kingdom of Serbia, where she was welcomed and formally enrolled in the Serbian army. She was subsequently promoted to the rank of Sergeant major, and, after the war, to Captain. She was decorated with seven medals.
context_section_description: Our Englishwoman, a television film based on the biography of Flora Sandes and directed by Slobodan Radovitch, was produced in 1997 by the Serbian broadcasting service RTS.
  The last track of the album England Green and England Grey by Reg Meuross is "The Ballad of Flora Sandes". It is an interpretation of her life.
caption: Sandes on a 2015 stamp of Serbia
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