Women travelers: Rosita Forbes

Few facts about Rosita Forbes:

• Rosita Forbes was born in 1893 and later married a soldier with whom she travelled to India, China, Australia and South Africa. 
• During the first world war she worked as an ambulance driver and received two medals for her war services from the French government.
• She was a genuine traveller: she lived and mixed with the locals, frequenting bazaars and making friends with the Arabs, Afghans, Indians, Tadjiks, Usbegs and Kazaks.
• Forbes travelled to Morocco and then went to Abyssinia where she made a travel film entitled From Red Sea to Blue Nile.
• She visited Persia and in 1930 travelled through Syria, Palestine, Iraq and Transjordania. Her other travels took her to South America, Russia and from Kenya to the Gold Coast.
• Rosita Forbes was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society.
• She died in 1967.