Elisa Servenius

At Ratan, she marched at her husband's side dressed in a uniform, nursed the wounded, collected the ammunition from the fallen and handed it to her fellow soldiers during the battle.

Officers, who knew her from the earlier expedition, informed admiral Johan af Puke and recommended that she should be spared from further inconvenience.

Wachtmeister described Elisa Servenius to the queen as a former kitchen maid, with "energetic, expressive eyes, vivid in her ways and appearance, and even intelligent, so much so as one could ask from a person of her class", and that she "made herself noted with a natural fearlessness before danger"[5] When asked, if she was afraid during the firing on the battlefield, she had replied: Why would I be?

[5] The queen was impressed with her, and commented: Truly a philosophic way of reason from a woman of the people and a proof of wisdom as well as judgment.

[3] Elisa Servenius is not the only woman in Swedish history to have served as a soldier dressed as a man, but she is one of very few of these women who were officially recognized and decorated for such an act.