My second chapter examines those who were designated as ‘war heroines’, either officially, such as Edith Cavell, or more locally, by the press, regional authorities or by members of organisations. I also trace in this chapter the ‘afterlives’ of surviving French and British wartime heroines as they attempted to reintegrate into peacetime life after the Armistice. Where women died, their heroine status remained largely uncontested, as they were fixed forever in the public imagination as ‘martyrs’ of the war. For the women who survived, however, their experiences were more varied. Some women were able successfully to use their heroine status to intervene in public life in various ways, becoming public speakers, joining male veteran associations, or publishing their stories in books and newspapers. Others, however, were less accepted once the guns had fallen silent, and found the post-war years dissatisfying. Their writings often express a degree of nostalgia for their wartime lives, a sense in which their experience as veterans was one of disappointment with the limitations of peacetime – a sentiment which is also to be found in many male veteran writings of the period.