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Dorothie Feilding
Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore MM, CdeG, OLII (6 October 1889 – 24 October 1935) was a British heiress who shunned her aristocratic background to become a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front during World War I. She was the first woman to be awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field.〔(''The Encyclopædia Britannica: Volume III'' (1920) )〕〔(''New Zealand Evening Post'' (1917) from The National Library of New Zealand )〕〔(1911encyclopedia.org )〕〔(Westley, F. C., ''The Spectator'', (1919) Issues 4723-4748 )〕 She also received the 1914 Star,〔(thepeerage.com )〕 the Croix de guerre from the French and the Order of Leopold II from the Belgians for services to their wounded.〔(''American Journal of Nursing'', Volume 17, Issue 1 ), pg 144〕
==Early life==
Born on 6 October 1889 to Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh and the Countess of Denbigh, Cecilia Mary Feilding (née Clifford), Dorothie was one of ten children, three boys and seven girls, and a distant relative of Henry Fielding, author of ''Tom Jones''.
As a child she was educated at home at Newnham Paddox, Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, and at the Convent of the Assumption in Paris, where she became fluent in French. She made her debut in May 1908 at the age of 18, being presented to the King and Queen of England by her mother.
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