Elsie MacGill 27 March 1905 – 4 November 1980 (Canada)
World's first female Aircraft Designer, McGill was known as the Queen of the Hurricanes.
World's first female Aircraft Designer, McGill was known as the Queen of the Hurricanes.
Elsa Brändström March 26, 1888 – March 4, 1948
Brändström was a Swedish nurse & philanthropist.
The daughter of the Swedish Ambassador in St Petersburg, Brändström volunteered as a nurse for the Russian Army and worked for the Swedish Red Cross in Siberia in 1915, working with Prisoners of War.
Brändström continued to work with POWs and then refugees throughout her life, helping them with resettlement and employment and setting up a fund to provide scholarships for children.