211863 Elsie Knocker Women's Emergency Corps In 1914, motorbike fanatics Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm travelled into London to 'do their bit' for the war effort. Volunteering for the Women's Emergency Corps, they were hired as dispatch riders, causing a minor scandal with their trousers (ending above the knee), leather boots and jackets. They beat 200 applicants for a posting to Belgium as ambulance drivers, and soon they were at the front, dodging sniper fire and bombardment to collect the fallen soldiers and to ferry the wounded to field hospitals. As news of their work spread they became known as The Angels of Pervyse.
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