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Description: | British civilian involved in voluntary work for Red Cross in Gloucestershire and Essex, 1914-1916; NCO with Women's Police Force on security duties in munitions factories in GB, 1916-1918
REEL 1 Aspects of family and educational background. Recollections of life and work, 1914-1916: organising hospital for Red Cross in Standish House; preparations for arrival of patients; duties; working hours. Recollections of period with Women's Police Unit, GB, 1916-1918: formation of Women's Police Unit; duties looking after female workers in munitions factories; lack of training; conditions in munitions factory, Hereford; attitude towards work of Women's Police Unit; reporting on duties; relations between male and female police officers; working hours; air raids; attitude towards Germans; searching workers for stolen items.
REEL 2 Continues: danger buildings at factories; question of thefts in factories; friction between British and Irish workers; attitude of workers towards female Police officers; attitude towards leaving police job; inspections; types of girls working in factories; parent's attitude towards her war work; knowledge of wars progress; Armistice; impact of war on home village; taking refugees into home; work at Woolwich Arsenal; future of Women's Police Force; attitude towards losing job at end of war. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stovold, Jan R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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