Her face daubed with shoe polish and her uniform padded to give her a manly silhouette, Dorothy Lawrence clambered into a trench on the Western Front.
This was the determined journalist’s second attempt to get a front-row view of the First World War.
Armed with just a passport and a pencil in 1915, the 19-year-old had taken a boat to France and tried to cycle to the Somme, hoping to expose the terrible conditions British soldiers were enduring.
