Women's Battalion of Death

[Dave]

"Zhenskii batal'on smerti"

Women of the first battalion of death, shown here with bayonets in 1917, their hair was worn very close cropped.



In the opinion of one American observer, these women marked the true debut of the woman soldier: "Not the isolated individual woman who has buckled on a sword and shouldered a gun through the pages of history, but the woman soldier banded and fighting en masse—gun companies of her, battalions of her, whole regiments of her."

[Jim]

Wonder how the title "Battalion of Death" came about .. Do you have more info Dave??

See the Ladies on the back row having a good chin wag ..

[Dave]

Aye Jim there's a whole load more info and photos HERE, I found it by chance, 'just thought it was a striking photo, and I wondered what those two were talking about....