Gertrude Powicke

[1] Gertrude Mary Powicke was born on 19 December 1887 in Hatherlow, near Stockport, UK.

[3] She was one of the early women graduates from the Victoria University of Manchester, gaining a degree in Modern Languages in 1911.

She travelled with the FWVRC to Poland in 1919 to treat a typhus outbreak and contracted the disease herself during a hospital tour.

[5] Her death was not officially recognised by the British government or the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

[1] Powicke is the only woman honoured on the University of Manchester's war memorial behind Whitworth Hall.