Friday, 19 May 2017

WOMEN OF WAR

Incredible photos show Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps treating wounded soldiers and digging up bombshells during vital First World War effort

Volunteers played critical contribution to conflict 100 years ago

    


By the end of the war as many as 50,000 has signed up for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps

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By the end of the war as many as 50,000 has signed up for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps

THE VITAL role British women played in the First World War has often gone overlooked.
But these extraordinary photos from the conflict 100 years ago show how critical their contribution really was.
Women’s vital contribution to the First World War effort included working as carpenters in workshops near to the front line
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Women’s vital contribution to the First World War effort included working as carpenters in workshops near to the front line
By the end of the war as many as 50,000 has signed up for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
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By the end of the war as many as 50,000 has signed up for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
A member of the Corps tends to a badly wounded British soldier on the platform of a French railway station
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A member of the Corps tends to a badly wounded British soldier on the platform of a French railway station
Members of the Corps in Southsea, Hants make surgical dressings for troops fighting on the continent
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Members of the Corps in Southsea, Hants make surgical dressings for troops fighting on the continent
Brave members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps are seen toiling away with a host of different duties.
They can be seen baring stretchers and working as carpenters near the front line.
A courageous pair are shown digging up the nose cap of the shell that fell in the garden of their dressing station 500 yards from the front line.
Other stunning shots show women driving ambulances near the front line in France and tending to wounded British soldiers and German prisoners.
British women also played an important role on the home front and are pictured making splints, surgical dressings and comfort bags for wounded American soldiers.

  

     

               
The ladies also helped to keep morale up by visiting American soldiers in hospitals , such as the one in Dartford.
The other side of the war is not forgotten either as women and children are pictured waiting in a breadline as hunger spread across the country.
The Corps was established in 1917 as the Army was running short of men because so many had been injured or killed on the front line.
The War Office identified a number of jobs which did not involve fighting that could be carried out by women – freeing the men to fight.
During the Great War many women left behind were forced to wait in line for bread
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During the Great War many women left behind were forced to wait in line for bread
Women make splints at the HQ of the Surgical Appliances Association in Chelsea, London
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Women make splints at the HQ of the Surgical Appliances Association in Chelsea, London
In a grand London workrooms members of them Corps concentrate on sowing machines
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In a grand London workrooms members of them Corps concentrate on sowing machines
Many of the volunteers were expected to bear stretchers taking the injured to safety
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Many of the volunteers were expected to bear stretchers taking the injured to safety
They included office, canteen, transport roles and general duties on army bases.
Over 50,000 women signed up and found themselves taking on duties as diverse as cooking, mechanics and admin.




Volunteers pay a visit to American soldiers in a new hospital in Dartford
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Volunteers pay a visit to American soldiers in a new hospital in Dartford
Two women dig up a nose cap of a shell that fell in the garden of their dressing station just 500 yards from the front line
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Two women dig up a nose cap of a shell that fell in the garden of their dressing station just 500 yards from the front line
Many women worked as ambulance drivers near the French front lines
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Many women worked as ambulance drivers near the French front lines
(The Sun, UK)


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