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'Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Au refectoire: les volontaires du bataillon feminin, designe aussi sous le norm de <<bataillon de la Mort >>, puisent le gruau a meme la marmite commune; la viande est posee sur la table nue', 1917. Upheavals in Russia: 'in the refectory: the volunteers of the women's battalion, also referred to as the "death battalion", take gruel from the common pot; the meat is laid on the bare table'. (Maria Bochkareva formed the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, and was the first Russian woman to command a military unit). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].