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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 First, the Few, the Forgotten: Navy and Marine Corps Women in World War I. Annapolis, MD: The Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-203-2. Frahm, Jill. "The Hello Girls: Women Telephone Operators with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 3#3 (2004): 271–293. online
World War I saw women taking traditionally men's jobs in large numbers for the first time in American history. Many women worked on the assembly lines of factories, producing trucks and munitions, while department stores employed African American women as elevator operators and cafeteria waitresses for the first time. The Food Administration ...
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.
Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States (1990) Hagemann, Karen and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum; Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany. Berg, 2002. Harris, Carol (2000). Women at War 1939–1945: The Home Front. Stroud: Sutton Publishing Limited. ISBN 0750925361.
Canada: Over 2,800 women serve in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during the war. Women also receive training in small arms, first aid and vehicle maintenance in anticipation of being used as home guards. [25] New Zealand: Nurses in the New Zealand Army Nursing Service serve on hospital ships and in hospitals at the front in France. [26]
WW1 Doughboy disobeys orders to save the condemned cavalry horse that saved his life. C, D S 1934 US Stamboul Quest: Sam Wood: During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence. D, R 1934 US The World Moves On: John Ford: A, D N ...
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