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Around the picture the legend reads (in capitals) "He died for freedom and honour", or for the approximately 600 plaques issued to commemorate women, "She died for freedom and honour". [ 1 ] They were initially made at the Memorial Plaque Factory, 54/56 Church Road, Acton , W3, London [ 2 ] from 1919.
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Death is more typically presented through images of widows, orphans and elderly parents on memorials, all popular inter-war allegorical forms for death and grieving. [282] Figures of women often represented peace, civilisation or wider humanity. [283] By far the most important source of symbolism on memorials, however, is Christian imagery and ...
The Woman's Land Army of America was a civilian organization that employed tens of thousands of women in agricultural jobs in order to free men for military service. [6] The Red Cross employed some eight million women as volunteers in various capacities and trained nearly 20,000 nurses for the armed forces. They also organized the Motor Service ...
They list the name of every woman who died in the line of service during WWI. An inscription thereon reads, “This screen records the names of women of the Empire who gave their lives in the war 1914–1918 to whose memory the Five Sisters window was restored by women”. [62] There are 1,513 names listed on the screens. [63]
Soldiers and McKinley Memorial Parkways; Soldiers Memorial Military Museum; Spirit of the American Doughboy; Spirit of the American Navy; Tomb of the Known Soldier; Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington) Victory Boulevard (Staten Island) Victory Eagle; Virginia War Memorial; Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial; Washington Avenue Soldier's Monument ...