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PLANS to build a memorial to the only woman from Bolton to die on active service during First World War are set to be approved by council bosses. The application, which has been submitted by the Friends of Moses Gate, will pay tribute to cotton mill worker Alice Thomasson, who joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in late 1917. Alice was one of 57,000 women who served between January 1917 and November 1918. In May 1918 she sailed to France where she was posted to a camp, hospital and army supply depot at Abbeville. But tragedy struck just three days later when the Germans launched a bombing raid.