Nightingale's crusade to have soldiers receive proper nursing as close as possible to the battlefield was first rejected as an improper female interference in army life but by the time WWI began this view was changed for good. The International Red Cross, founded in 1863 by the Swiss business...
Despite not being soldiers, 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...
Women witnessed the events of World War One in dramatic and liberating ways. Many of their stories are unconventional and unique, forged in circumstances that were not available to men. Women experienced the war as nurses, doctors, journalists, educators, fundraisers, artists and soldiers. They ...
Still today, when women are employed as professional soldiers by a number of state armed forces, we tend to believe that war is man's exclusive business. This is plainly untrue, and has always been so, since war can't be reduced just to combat and, anyway, combat is no longer the sol...
Famous Women in World War 2 Famous women in WW2helped lead the French Resistance, nurse soldiers to health, and care forprisoners of war. Nancy Wake Nancy Wake Known as "The White Mouse," Nancy Wake is one of the famous women in WW2. She helped lead the French Resistance to Nazi occupa...
Women experienced the war as nurses, doctors, journalists, educators, fundraisers, artists and soldiers. They were found in all theatres of war, from Mesopotamia and the Balkans through to Russia and the Western Front. As millions of men enlisted to fight in the massive armies of the Allies ...
The recruiters created the impression that the women were vulnerable, and they were usually depicted in the propaganda campaigns as desperate for the Australian soldiers to protect and defend them against the ‘evil’ Germans, known as ‘The Hun’. Women who had to farewell their husband, son,...
separation center to discharge returning soldiers. His family cherishes a note from the late Dr. Harry Davis Abrahams, a U.S. Army Major, praising Cpl. Morollo who was his ward master, as a “competent and industrious individual who was well trained in caring for patients in...
I arrived before Janine. As far as I could tell, the Ahmedabad Airport was staffed by the entire Indian army, each soldier carrying a honking huge gun. I grabbed my suitcase and exited baggage control into India. Noise. Chaos. People, dogs, honking horns, more people. More soldiers. More...
Women witnessed the events of World War One in dramatic and liberating ways. Many of their stories are unconventional and unique, forged in circumstances that were not available to men. Women experienced the war as nurses, doctors, journalists, educators, fundraisers, artists and soldiers. They ...