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Pages in category "British women in World War I" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 219 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
She later became the first woman surgeon to be commissioned into the British Army. [55] British nurse Edith Cavell helped treat injured soldiers of both sides in German-occupied Belgium. She was executed in 1915 by the Germans for helping Allied soldiers escape to neutral Netherlands.
Flora Sandes (Serbian Cyrillic: Флора Сендс, 22 January 1876 – 24 November 1956) was a British woman who served as a member of the Royal Serbian Army in World War I. She was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in that war. [2]
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The original black and white photographs were painstakingly colourised to mark the World War One centenary.
The First Army was part of the British Army during the First World War and was formed on 26 December 1914 when the corps of the British Expeditionary Force were divided into the First Army under Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig and the Second Army under Horace Smith-Dorrien. [1] First Army had the Ist, IVth and the Indian Corps under command ...
[161] [162] [163] The Women's Land Army brought in 23,000 young women from the towns and cities to milk cows, pick fruit and otherwise replace the men who joined the services. [164] More extensive use of tractors and machinery also replaced farm labourers. However, there was a shortage of both men and horses on the land by late 1915.
The British Army during the First World War was the largest military force that Britain had put into the field up to that point.On the Western Front, the British Expeditionary Force ended the war as the strongest fighting force, more experienced than the United States Army and its morale was in better shape than the French Army. [182] [c]