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Brothers in Alms - Women at War and at Home

WOMEN AT WAR AND AT HOME

Women volunteered to help the war effort as soon as they had sent their men off to fight. First they filled the gaps left by the men back home in the office and on the land and factories. Then almost 10,000 volunteered to go to the front to help the men fighting both as nurses and ambulance drivers and any other tasks that could spare the men to continue the struggle

war scenes

Women of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps in their fur coats, c.1915

FANY Drivers

The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)

The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)

The Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS)

The Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS)

Floral tributes sent to Madam Ada Crossly by the wounded ANZACS whom she entertained, c.1915

Thanking Ada

The Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAC)

The Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAC)

Female bricklayers on building site in Lancashire, c.1916

Women’s War Work

Nurses Boarding the Erin in Marseille

Nurses Boarding the Erin in Marseille

war scenes

Girls Standing Over Grave

Girls Standing Over Grave

womens' protest

Sweet Tooth

One of the riders, Evelina Haverfield, a prominent suffragette and Freemason, later founded The Women’s Emergency Corps in WWI, c.1919

Suffragette March

Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst leaving Bow Street, where they were imprisoned. In 1914, Emmeline ceased all suffragette activities to help with the war effort, c.1910

The Pankhurst’s

Lady Norman’s Scooter

Lady Norman’s Scooter

A group of women form a typing pool for war correspondents

The British War Office

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