Female Soldiers Timeline
All soldiers organised in chronological order. As birth and death dates are often inexact and sometimes non-existent, there is a degree of approximation involved, so the order cannot be guaranteed to be correct.
In the case of soldiers who lived across two different centuries, preference is given to the one which they spent the majority of their lives in.
Photos of soldiers for which no other information is given are ordered based on the date of the photograph or event.
13th Century BCE
5th Century BCE
2nd Century BCE
1st Century BCE
3rd Century
7th Century
Pingyang (598-623)
9th Century
11th Century
Florine of Burgundy (1083-1097)
12th Century
13th Century
Rudrama Devi (1245-1289)
14th Century
15th Century
16th Century
Ōhōri Tsuruhime (1526-1543)
Gráinne Ní Mháille (1530-1603)
17th Century
Nzinga Mbande (1583-1663)
Christian ‘Kit’ Cavanagh (1667-1739)
Catherina Linck (c.1687-1721)
The Mino (17th Century through to late 20th Century)
18th Century
Hannah Snell (1723-1792)
Deborah Sampson (1760-1827)
Laskarina Bouboulina (1771-1825)
19th Century
Juana Azurduy (1780-1862)
Virginia Ghesquière (?? - 1854)
Sarah Bowman (1812-1886)
Yamakawa Futaba (1844-1909)
Nakano Takeko (1847-1868)
Armenian Guerrillas (photo: 1895)
Early 20th Century
Flora Sandes (1876-1956)
Maria Bochkareva (1889-1920)
Violette Morris (1893-1944)
Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894-1917)
Marina Raskova (1912-1943)
Elena Haas (1912-1945)
Milunka Savić (1912-1973)
Sabiha Gökçen (1913-2001)
Russian Soldiers Under Instruction
Nadezhda Fedutenko (1915-1978)
Hannah Szenes (1921-1944)
Aleksandra Samusenko (1922-1945)
Mariya Dolina (1922-2010)
Minnie Spotted Wolf (1923-1988)
Roza Shanina (1924-1945)
Sara Ginaite (1924 - )
Klavdiya Kalugina (1926 - )
Emilia Gierczak (1925-1945)
Bracha Fuld (1926-1946)
Women at the Siege of the Alcázar
Frances Wills and Harriet Ida Pickens
20th Century: World War 2 (1939-45)
Finnish soldiers bandaging a wounded Russian female soldier
Soviet Sniper (2)
Late 20th Century
Shadia Abu Ghazali (photo: c. 1967)
South Vietnamese Fighter (photo: c.1967)
Member of a Vietnamese Militia (photo: 1968)
Cambodian Soldier (photo: 1970)
Lam Thi Dep (photo: 1972)
IRA Fighter (photo: early 1970s)
Polisario Soldier (photo: 1978)
21st Century
FARC Guerrilleras (circa 2001)
al-Aqsa Suicide Bomber Unit (Photo:2004)
Current Events (alphabetical)
Kristen Griest and Shaye Haver