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Florence Green

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Also known as: Florence Beatrice Patterson
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Melinda C. Shepherd
Melinda Shepherd became an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica in 1988 and served as a senior editor of Britannica Book of the Year from 2004 to 2016.
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Née:
Florence Beatrice Patterson
Born:
February 19, 1901, London, England
Died:
February 4, 2012, King’s Lynn, Norfolk (aged 110)

Florence Green (born February 19, 1901, London, England—died February 4, 2012, King’s Lynn, Norfolk) was a British servicewoman who was the last surviving veteran of World War I. Patterson joined the newly created Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) on September 13, 1918, at age 17 and was assigned to work as a steward in the officers’ mess halls at the Marham and Narborough airfields in Norfolk, England. Prior to the war this job would have been done by a man, but the need for men in combat roles opened many such jobs to women. The war ended less than two ...(100 of 185 words)

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