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Darrow, Margaret H. French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home Front (Berg, 2000) [ISBN missing] Fridenson, Patrick. The French home front, 1914–1918 (1992) Grayzel, Susan R. Women's identities at war: gender, motherhood, and politics in Britain and France during the First World War (1999). Greenhalgh, Elizabeth.
During World War One, there was virtually no female presence in the Canadian armed forces, with the exception of the 3,141 nurses serving both overseas and on the home front. [51] Of these women, 328 had been decorated by King George V, and 46 gave their lives in the line of duty. [51]
The food program was a major success, as output expanded, waste was reduced, and both the home front and the Allies received more food. [36] The U.S. Food Administration under Herbert Hoover launched a massive campaign to teach Americans to economize on their food budgets and grow victory gardens in their backyards. [ 37 ]
The U.S. Marine Corps enlisted 305 female Marine Reservists (F) to "free men to fight" by filling positions such as clerks and telephone operators on the home front. During World War I , in January 1918, Myrtle Hazard became the first woman to enlist in the U.S. Coast Guard. [ 5 ]
Women's participation in WWI fostered the support and development of the suffrage movement, including in the United States. [7] During the Second World War, women's contributions to industrial labor in factories located on the home front kept society and the military running while the world was in chaos. [2]
QMAACs marching in London at the end of World War I, 1918 QMAAC tug-o-war team at the New Zealand Infantry and General Base Depot, Etaples, France, August 1918. The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), known as Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (QMAAC) from 9 April 1918, was the women's corps of the British Army during and immediately after the First World War. [1]
On March 4, 2023, the Mountain Home Public Library hosted a program on Idaho history featuring, in its Women's History Month segment, the biography of WWI Signal Corps telephone operator Anne Campbell, the only Hello Girl from Idaho to serve at the Western front. She was a member of the sixth and last group of stateside-trained Hello Girls to ...
In 1917, the British Army in France was short of manpower, and members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps were asked to volunteer for front line service in supporting roles. [1] [2] Six women were identified as capable of supporting the I(e)C front line codebreaking work at Saint-Omer in northern France, and arrived there on 28 September 1917 ...