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Guarding Gate of Eddystone Plant (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Mine woman, England (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Art Siegel said:
    The "mine woman" is the female munitions worker overcome by fumes, being carried in the photo:

    "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Nicholls, Horace (Photographer)

    Q 30979

    Fire women bringing out female workers who have been overcome by smoke fumes at a national shell filling factory."

    THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918
    THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918© IWM (Q 30979)

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    THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918
    THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918© IWM (Q 30980)
    THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918
    THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918© IWM (Q 30978)

Women's Army workers assembling gun sights at a workshop, Queensland, 1945

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    The Women’s Australian National Service (WANS) was inaugurated in 1940. Training for members of the WANS included air raid drills, first aid, basic military drills, and even shooting, signalling, and mechanics. In the period leading up to the formation of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS), the WANS demonstrated that women were capable of filling roles traditionally filled by men. Sir Percy Spender, Australia’s Minister for the Army, considered women to be an underutilised resource in Australia’s war effort. Consequently, he approved the formation of the AWAS on 13 August 1941 with the objective of releasing more men into forward areas. Source: www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/awas
  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    And work of high merit has been carried out by women members of AEME. Hundreds of AWAS are in the corps, and they are very proud of their AEME colour patch. Some are University graduates. The Army has to rely on many complicated optical instruments for sighting long range artillery, field artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and coast artillery. These instruments range from ordinary binoculars to complex construction. In all-optical predictors of most work the AWAS has shown extraordinary skill. The girls have also been especially useful in instrument making, armature winding, and other work requiring delicacy of touch, quickness of movement, and perseverance. Source: The Arguse, 20 Jan 1945 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1108145