While treating wounded soldiers at the front, the W . A . A . C .'s shelter trench was bombed and machine-gunned by German aeroplanes, and many around her were killed.
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In 1918 women medical personnel were sent to the front in France; one such was Dr . Phoebe Chapple, who was awarded the Military Medal for her actions during an air raid on the WAAC shelter trench outside Abbeville in May 1918.