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Hay Baling
Industrial Workers of the Women's Forage Corps, RASC, numbering approximately 6,500 substituted soldiers 1915-1919 in all classes of work connected with the distribution of forage to the Army.
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Women's Forage Corps, Royal Army Service Corps: Baling Hay For The Army.
In July 1915 the War Office enrolled women supervisors to arrange the collection of hay from farms, its transport to railway stations, and its forwarding to its military destination.
In consequence of the increased need of substitution of female for male labour, a women's branch of the forage Department, known as the Women's Forage Corps, was started in March 1917.
Mrs Athole Stewart was appointed Superintendant and 4,200 women were enrolled as first or second grade officers or industrial members.
They served throughout Great Britain and Ireland.
The industrial members took the place of privates in the R.A.S.C. and wore khaki iniform. They worked as hay balers, sack makers and menders, sheet repairers, thatchers, chaffing hands, transport drivers and clerks.
The women are seen feeding the compressors, wiring the bales, and, on the left, weighing the bales before they are stacked for removal. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Mrs Meredith Williams, The Studio Cottage, Peppard Common, Henley-on-Thames | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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