Hanna Dmyterko

Hanna Dmyterko or Anna Dmiterko and later also known as Hanna Ratych (9 February 1893 – 3 April 1981), was a Ukrainian soldier during World War I. She became a sergeant in the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, a unit in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Her exploits were reported in the press, and she was decorated.

Life Dmyterko was born in 1893.

In 1914, Dmyterko was among 2,000 Ukrainians who made up the newly created Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. They, like many of the chosen recruits, were former university students. The new force was limited to 60 officers.

Dmyterko left her family in the village of Pidberizka with only the support of her father, as her mother and grandmother disapproved of her fighting. She died in New Jersey in 1981. Her memoirs are second only to those of Olena Stepaniv as a source for those studying Ukrainian women's experiences in World War I.