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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]
During WWI, large numbers of women were recruited into jobs that had either been vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war, or had been created as part of the war effort. The high demand for weapons and the overall wartime situation resulted in munitions factories collectively becoming the largest employer of American women by 1918.
Campbell, D'Ann. Women at War With America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era (1984) online; Cook, Bernard A. Women and war: a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present (2006) Costello, John. Love, Sex, and War: Changing Values, 1939–1945 (1985). US title: Virtue under Fire: How World War II Changed Our Social and Sexual Attitudes
The Canary Girls were British women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during the First World War (1914–1918). The nickname arose because exposure to TNT is toxic, and repeated exposure can turn the skin an orange-yellow colour reminiscent of the plumage of a canary .
Members of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death with their commander Maria Bochkareva (far right) in 1917. Women's Battalions (Russia) were all-female combat units formed after the February Revolution by the Russian Provisional Government, in a last-ditch effort to inspire the mass of war-weary soldiers to continue fighting in World War I.
Turkish women also took main roles in combat in WWI [52] and the Independence War. [53] Sabiha Gökçen was the first Turkish female combat pilot, [ 54 ] [ 55 ] having flown 22 different types of aircraft for more than 8,000 hours, 32 hours of which were active combat and bombardment missions.
American civilian or military women who had a role in World War I (1914-1918). United States portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories ...
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]