Rachel Crowdy headed the Social Section of the league of Nations from 1919 to 1931, making her the only woman to occupy a senior administrative position in the organisation.
Dame Rachel Crowdy, a commandant of the VAD [Voluntary Aid Detachment] and her assistant Miss Monica Glazebrook in their office at the Hotel Christol, Boulogne, b/w photograph, 1919, photographer: Olive Edis; source: © IWM (Q 7978), http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205194661.