Unfortunately, details of Iva’s service with the WAAC appear to have been lost in the fire at the War Office Record Store, Arnside Street, Walworth, in 1940, the warehouse badly damaged as a result of a German air raid. What is known is that Iva’s service ended ...
Women and WWI - Women at the Front: Been There, Done That During the war women were to be found mostly at the home front while a minority went close to the actual fronts where the war was being fought, some even into combat.The only woman soldier enlisted in the British Army managed ...
(Great Britain, France, United States, Soviet Union, China) and Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) followed World War 1 (WW1), which took place from 1914 through 1918. The devastation of WW1 led to political and economic instability in Europe, which contributed to the outbreak of ...
We only have to think of, on the one hand, the grief women endured throughout the war on account of the slaughter at the front of men they loved and, on the other, of the feminist defence of pacifism, to understand how bitter this victory over anti-suffragist currents must have been....
Flour war in Spain Newborn babies wear dog costumes to celebrate the New Year One-eyed dog journeys round the world Girl wants to look like a real life doll Meet the oldest serving flight attendant Gaza zoo puts lion cubs up for sale Australian WW1-era naval submarine HMAS AE-1 found af...
(MAG) in January 2017. The charity,which inspired the late Princess Diana’s highlighting of the devastation caused to civilians by land mines in war zones, became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace prize in the 1990s. After studying at the University of Manchester Dr Cocking spent 25 years...
‘Who Wouldn’t Be a Soldier?’– WW1 Diaries of Sgt Thomas Dykes DCM (Ed) Yarra Valley Vietnam Veterans – Tell Their Story ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project was made possible as a result of grant funding from the Armistice Centenary Grants Program (ACGP), Department of Veterans Affairs, Austral...
women played an integral role in WW1 by persuading men to join the war and more insidiously, demonizing men who were reluctant to fight. Sassoon also highlights the lack of compassion shown to men who survived and exposes the hypocrisy of women who goaded men into war and failed to care ...
Maria Bochkareva and the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death - Who Did What in WW1?: Directed by Toni Steller, Florian Wittig. With Indy Neidell.
on 1 October 1919 from the 2nd Military District. A medical report following an examination at the Anzac Buffet in the Domain Sydney on her return contains a signed statement by Mary that “I am not suffering from any disability due to or aggravated by War service, and feel fit and well....