Category: British Women in World War I

Categories: United Kingdom, World War I | Women's History | British History

British Women in World War I

Behind the front line of the Great War were an army of women playing a pivotal role in history. Whilst the men fought a war, women were at the epicentre of change. An estimated two million women replaced absent men in the workplace. The women that lived, fought and died in the war showed, in stark terms, how women were equal to men in bravery, ingenuity and capacity to work.

Mary Bousfield 27 Aug 1891 Clapham Park, London Borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England - 24 Feb 1919

Vera Brittain 29 Dec 1893 Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England - 29 Mar 1970

Mabel (Campbell) Beresford-Peirse 24 Feb 1876 City of London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 13 Jan 1966

Edith Cavell 04 Dec 1865 Swardeston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom - 12 Oct 1915

Aleen Cust 07 Feb 1868 County Tipperary, Ireland - 29 Jan 1937

Kathleen (Gale) Colville 22 Jan 1905 Ireland - 29 Dec 1986

Jessie Grocock abt 1896 Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

Alice (Scott) Forsyth-Forrest 03 Dec 1874 Queensbury Lodge, Hayling, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 25 Nov 1966

Lucia (White) Monckton-Arundell 03 Dec 1890 England - 1983

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