In WW1, two motorcycling pals living in London volunteered to set up a nursing station near the front lines in Belgium, near Ypres. They proved skilled ambulance drivers and triage nurses, and even brought their own motorcycles with them.

It was horrific duty, they were often shelled, but they stayed nearly four years, and were known as the Angels of Pervyse, for the village they had set up in, under a ruined farmhouse. They were famous women in WW1, and raised more money selling war bonds than anyone else.  A few books have been written, plus their own, The Cellar House of Pervyse

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