BURKE, KATHLEEN

(1887), English Red Cro worker, 6. in England. After a course of study at University of Paris, she became tary of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, but on the outbreak of the World began raising funds for the Red She was the first woman allowed_to speak before the members of the York Stock Exchange asa body. By ecg she raised $890,000 for the ro . She was the first woman to enter the area of hostilities at and also the first woman allowed to the British front in France. In United States she became widely through her public speaking during war period and was granted the ‘freedom’ of the cities of San Francisco, Fyésno, Cal., and Flint, Mich., also made honorary colonel of the Field Artillery, of the U.S.A. She the author of ‘The White Road Verdun.’ 61), Australian traveler; 6. ed. Belgium; became a captain Austrian army; member of Royal and became a police-inspector at bourne; led heroic, ill-fated expedition acro Australian continent, died of starvation on return journey.