Ann Moore, SHP

HOW DID WOMEN HELP TO WIN THE FIRST WORLD WAR?

Pictorial sources. Please laminate and cut up for classroom activities

Bus and Tram Conductors1

Milk Float Driver2

Post Office Sorters3

Messengers in the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) in Belgium 1915

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Visiting soldiers in the trenches5

Policewomen6

Making shells in munitions factories (munitionettes)

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Making aircraft wings8

Anti tank mine workers9

Potato pickers and sorters10

Fisherwomen in Harwich11

Founder of Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild and President of the Red Cross Society

QUEEN MARYQUEEN ALEXANDER

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Ambulance Corps13

Women doctors create an all – women staffed military hospital in London for wounded soldiers...The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital

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Volunteers at the Streatham Common War Supply Depot

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Garment makers in Hammersmith16

Ladies Territorial Committee member making waistcoats from old gloves

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Making socks for the Navy at the British and Foreign Sailors Society

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Coal heavers in Scotland

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War Work Club in Wales20

Ammunition bag makers to hold powder and shells

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Red Cross nurse tending a wounded soldier on the battlefield

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Village Smithy in Essex23

Nurses on board the sinking hospital ship – Anglia. They stayed until all the wounded were off the ship and several perished

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Tram Drivers25

Night scene behind the firing line in France26

Making gas for the village of Chew Magna in Bristol

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Potato harvesters28

Nurses in convalescent homes29

Road Sweepers30