Q 114812. Women under training to be milkmaids.
May Bradford provided a priceless service, writing letters to loved ones on behalf of injured soldiers
A seismic shift in the role of women in society was induced by the urgent need for more factory and munitions workers and other traditional male roles. Their contribution to the war effort ultimately helped hasten female suffrage. A woman munitions worker welds at a work bench in an armaments factory, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women munitions workers in Paris, 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Two women replace the traditionally male porters at Marylebone Station in London during the First World war. Original Publication: Illustrated London News, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) A parade of women ambulance drivers during World War I, November 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Fire Brigade with their Chief Officer, March 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) The Women's Reserve of the British Army National Motor Volunteers being addressed by an officer, October 1916. 1st October 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women war workers working in an engineering shop, 1917. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women munitions workers in a Vickers factory maing shell cases, January 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A Woman working on an engine in an engineering shop, circa 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Fire Brigade on a fire drill with hoses and extingushers at full force, March 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A member of the Women's land Army in WWI, circa 1916. (Photo by F. J. Mortimer) Women's Army recruits drilling. United Kingdom, 8th May 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman shaping a steel knee splint at the Kensington War Hospital supply depot, November 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A young woman in an armaments factory in WWI. United Kingdom, circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women war workers march to Buckingham Palace in London. 29th June 1918. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency) Miss D. Milman of the Women's Service League outside 67 Warwick Square, 1918. (Photo by J. J. Lambe/Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Royal Air Force arrive at Buckingham Palace, London, to attend a party for war workers. 25th July 1919. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A member of the Women Porters At Marylebone Station Group giving a Great Central Railways carriage a thorough clean, 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman munitions worker operating a machine in an armaments factory during the First World War, circa 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women Navvies pushing loaded wheel barrows in Coventry during World War I, circa 1917. (Photo by Central Press) Women pulling apart old ledgers as part of the London & South West Railway's scheme to recycle paper. 16th April 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Women sorting paper for the London & South West Railway's scheme to clear out and recycle waste paper. United Kingdom, 16th April 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman at work in an armaments factory, circa 1914. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women police appointed for duty at a munitions works trying on new boots. United Kingdom, 30th January 1917. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency) Young women from Lowell in Massachusetts team up to form America's first Women's Death Battalion during World War I, inspired by their Russian counterparts, circa 1917. In front of the armoury where they drill are Mary Tully, Nina Hosington, Blanche Chengnon, Marie Provencher and Agnes Kelley. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive) Women wait to ask about American Red Cross nursing positions in 1918. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG)
Q 30373. A nursing sister from New Zealand.
Many people are aware that, during World War II, such products as silk, leather, rubber, and nylon were needed for the war effort. In the 1940s, the silk was needed for parachutes. Wool and Linen N…
A seismic shift in the role of women in society was induced by the urgent need for more factory and munitions workers and other traditional male roles. Their contribution to the war effort ultimately helped hasten female suffrage. A woman munitions worker welds at a work bench in an armaments factory, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women munitions workers in Paris, 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Two women replace the traditionally male porters at Marylebone Station in London during the First World war. Original Publication: Illustrated London News, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) A parade of women ambulance drivers during World War I, November 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Fire Brigade with their Chief Officer, March 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) The Women's Reserve of the British Army National Motor Volunteers being addressed by an officer, October 1916. 1st October 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women war workers working in an engineering shop, 1917. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women munitions workers in a Vickers factory maing shell cases, January 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A Woman working on an engine in an engineering shop, circa 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Fire Brigade on a fire drill with hoses and extingushers at full force, March 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A member of the Women's land Army in WWI, circa 1916. (Photo by F. J. Mortimer) Women's Army recruits drilling. United Kingdom, 8th May 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman shaping a steel knee splint at the Kensington War Hospital supply depot, November 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A young woman in an armaments factory in WWI. United Kingdom, circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women war workers march to Buckingham Palace in London. 29th June 1918. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency) Miss D. Milman of the Women's Service League outside 67 Warwick Square, 1918. (Photo by J. J. Lambe/Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Royal Air Force arrive at Buckingham Palace, London, to attend a party for war workers. 25th July 1919. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A member of the Women Porters At Marylebone Station Group giving a Great Central Railways carriage a thorough clean, 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman munitions worker operating a machine in an armaments factory during the First World War, circa 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women Navvies pushing loaded wheel barrows in Coventry during World War I, circa 1917. (Photo by Central Press) Women pulling apart old ledgers as part of the London & South West Railway's scheme to recycle paper. 16th April 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Women sorting paper for the London & South West Railway's scheme to clear out and recycle waste paper. United Kingdom, 16th April 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman at work in an armaments factory, circa 1914. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women police appointed for duty at a munitions works trying on new boots. United Kingdom, 30th January 1917. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency) Young women from Lowell in Massachusetts team up to form America's first Women's Death Battalion during World War I, inspired by their Russian counterparts, circa 1917. In front of the armoury where they drill are Mary Tully, Nina Hosington, Blanche Chengnon, Marie Provencher and Agnes Kelley. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive) Women wait to ask about American Red Cross nursing positions in 1918. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG)
Q 30017. Two female munitions workers stand beside examples of the shells produced at National Shell Filling Factory Chillwell Nottinghamshire during the First World War
This year marks 100 years since the end of World War I, the first time women were directly involved in the war effort. A detailed estimate of women’s total efforts is hard to come by, but these books shed light on the many ways they served.
During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. New jobs were also created as part of the war effort, for example in munitions factories. The high demand for weapons resulted in the munitions factories becoming the largest single employer of women during 1918. Though there was initial resistance to hiring women for what was seen as ‘men’s work’, the introduction of conscription in 1916 made the need for women workers urgent. Around this time, the government began coordinating the employment of women through campaigns and recruitment drives. These vintage photographs show the incredible range of essential products made by women during the war. A large number of women were employed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway during the first world war. Here, a group pose on a 4-4-2 High Flyer class locomotive, No 1406, at Low Moor engine shed near Bradford, 23 March 1917. Photograph: SSPL via Getty Images. A woman at work in an armaments factory, during the first world war. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. A woman driving a wagon and horses in north London during the first world war. The picture was taken on 16 August 1916. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty. Women railway employees during the first world war. Photograph: Branger/Roger Viollet/Getty Images. A woman tram driver, pictured in 1916, during the first world war. Photograph: Royal Photographic Society/SSPL via Getty Images. Five women ambulance drivers of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry during the first world war, pictured at Calais in January 1917. Photograph: IWM via Getty Images. Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette, on her motor-scooter in 1916, travelling to work at offices in London where she was a supervisor. The scooter was a birthday present from her husband, the journalist and Liberal politician Sir Henry Norman. Photograph: FPG/Getty Images. A woman 'land girl' driving a tractor ploughing a field in March 1918. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty. A woman mechanic repairing a car at a Women's Volunteer Reserve garage. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Two women porters at Marylebone station in London in 1914, loading wicker baskets onto a trolley. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images. A woman assembly line worker at a munitions factory in 1917, during the first world war. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Members of the women's police service during the first world war. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty. Women workers feed a charcoal kiln used for purifying sugar at a refinery in Scotland during the first world war. Photograph: IWM via Getty Images. A women bus conductor has a warming drink of hot milk beside her south London bus, in February 1916. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty. Women window cleaners working in Nottingham during the first world war, in 1917. Photograph: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy. Workhouse women watch female workers demonstrate rescuing skills, as part of firefighting training, in April 1917. Photograph: American Press Association/Corbis. Women workers assembling artillery shells at a Vickers munitions factory, during the first world war. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORB. Female construction workers push wheelbarrows loaded with earth, in Coventry, during the first world war. Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images. Female workers at an engineering factory, in 1917, during the first world war. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. (via The Guardian)
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Q 31104. London County Council female ambulance drivers carrying a stretcher case from a house 1918.
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was created in March 1917, one hundred years ago this month, and on the 31st the first group of members, 14 cooks and waitresses, were sent to France.
A seismic shift in the role of women in society was induced by the urgent need for more factory and munitions workers and other traditional male roles. Their contribution to the war effort ultimately helped hasten female suffrage. A woman munitions worker welds at a work bench in an armaments factory, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women munitions workers in Paris, 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Two women replace the traditionally male porters at Marylebone Station in London during the First World war. Original Publication: Illustrated London News, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) A parade of women ambulance drivers during World War I, November 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Fire Brigade with their Chief Officer, March 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) The Women's Reserve of the British Army National Motor Volunteers being addressed by an officer, October 1916. 1st October 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women war workers working in an engineering shop, 1917. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women munitions workers in a Vickers factory maing shell cases, January 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A Woman working on an engine in an engineering shop, circa 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Fire Brigade on a fire drill with hoses and extingushers at full force, March 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A member of the Women's land Army in WWI, circa 1916. (Photo by F. J. Mortimer) Women's Army recruits drilling. United Kingdom, 8th May 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman shaping a steel knee splint at the Kensington War Hospital supply depot, November 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A young woman in an armaments factory in WWI. United Kingdom, circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women war workers march to Buckingham Palace in London. 29th June 1918. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency) Miss D. Milman of the Women's Service League outside 67 Warwick Square, 1918. (Photo by J. J. Lambe/Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Royal Air Force arrive at Buckingham Palace, London, to attend a party for war workers. 25th July 1919. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A member of the Women Porters At Marylebone Station Group giving a Great Central Railways carriage a thorough clean, 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman munitions worker operating a machine in an armaments factory during the First World War, circa 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women Navvies pushing loaded wheel barrows in Coventry during World War I, circa 1917. (Photo by Central Press) Women pulling apart old ledgers as part of the London & South West Railway's scheme to recycle paper. 16th April 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Women sorting paper for the London & South West Railway's scheme to clear out and recycle waste paper. United Kingdom, 16th April 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman at work in an armaments factory, circa 1914. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women police appointed for duty at a munitions works trying on new boots. United Kingdom, 30th January 1917. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency) Young women from Lowell in Massachusetts team up to form America's first Women's Death Battalion during World War I, inspired by their Russian counterparts, circa 1917. In front of the armoury where they drill are Mary Tully, Nina Hosington, Blanche Chengnon, Marie Provencher and Agnes Kelley. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive) Women wait to ask about American Red Cross nursing positions in 1918. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG)
How 'plucky' heroines of 1914-18 conflict seized chance to advance women's freedoms
Q 107043. Two unidentified women in uniform on horseback.
Alongside the more well-known scenes of soldiers living in the trenches, a new exhibition shows pictures, letters and objects of the women they left behind
Q 54648. Female munitions workers operating lathes in a British shell factory. Note the improvised wooden machinery guards used in the works.
A group of mainly women volunteer ambulance drivers in Etaples, France, in 1917. Find out more about the history of emergency transport. Become an emergency response volunteer.
Women Firefighters during World War I. Drill scene at London Work House. April 1916.
A seismic shift in the role of women in society was induced by the urgent need for more factory and munitions workers and other traditional male roles. Their contribution to the war effort ultimately helped hasten female suffrage. A woman munitions worker welds at a work bench in an armaments factory, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women munitions workers in Paris, 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Two women replace the traditionally male porters at Marylebone Station in London during the First World war. Original Publication: Illustrated London News, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) A parade of women ambulance drivers during World War I, November 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Fire Brigade with their Chief Officer, March 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) The Women's Reserve of the British Army National Motor Volunteers being addressed by an officer, October 1916. 1st October 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women war workers working in an engineering shop, 1917. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women munitions workers in a Vickers factory maing shell cases, January 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A Woman working on an engine in an engineering shop, circa 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Fire Brigade on a fire drill with hoses and extingushers at full force, March 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A member of the Women's land Army in WWI, circa 1916. (Photo by F. J. Mortimer) Women's Army recruits drilling. United Kingdom, 8th May 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman shaping a steel knee splint at the Kensington War Hospital supply depot, November 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A young woman in an armaments factory in WWI. United Kingdom, circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women war workers march to Buckingham Palace in London. 29th June 1918. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency) Miss D. Milman of the Women's Service League outside 67 Warwick Square, 1918. (Photo by J. J. Lambe/Topical Press Agency) Members of the Women's Royal Air Force arrive at Buckingham Palace, London, to attend a party for war workers. 25th July 1919. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A member of the Women Porters At Marylebone Station Group giving a Great Central Railways carriage a thorough clean, 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman munitions worker operating a machine in an armaments factory during the First World War, circa 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women Navvies pushing loaded wheel barrows in Coventry during World War I, circa 1917. (Photo by Central Press) Women pulling apart old ledgers as part of the London & South West Railway's scheme to recycle paper. 16th April 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) Women sorting paper for the London & South West Railway's scheme to clear out and recycle waste paper. United Kingdom, 16th April 1917. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A woman at work in an armaments factory, circa 1914. (Photo by Hulton Archive) Women police appointed for duty at a munitions works trying on new boots. United Kingdom, 30th January 1917. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency) Young women from Lowell in Massachusetts team up to form America's first Women's Death Battalion during World War I, inspired by their Russian counterparts, circa 1917. In front of the armoury where they drill are Mary Tully, Nina Hosington, Blanche Chengnon, Marie Provencher and Agnes Kelley. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive) Women wait to ask about American Red Cross nursing positions in 1918. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG)
On August 1, 1914, the German Army invaded Belgium. The Germans wanted an easy passage to France. The Belgians fought back...
