Initially, women were only expected to encourage men to enlist in the armed forces, but from the day the War was declared they were keen to do all they could to play their part in the conflict.
Within days of the declaration of war local women had set up a working party to make clothes for sick and wounded soldiers and begun to plan for a Red Cross convalescent hospital in St Neots.
Early WWI Poster aimed at Women
British Red Cross Society, Working Parties, St Neots Advertiser, 21st August 1914
St Neots VAD Red Cross Hospital, St Neots Advertiser, 14th August 1914
St Neots Advertiser, 25th September 1914
Garments for the Wounded, Woman’s Weekly 1914
Letter from Harris Marshall of Waresley, St Neots Advertiser, 16th October 1914
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News that Sergeant Darlow of Tempsford had died of dysentry after serving at the Dardanelles was reported in the paper on 20th August. This small notice highlighted the number of troops who died from illness while fighting in Turkey and the use of the Island of Malta as a major treatment centre for sick troops.
Frank Ibbett, of St Neots, (third from right in the photo) was a professional soldier who had enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps., in February 1915, and was based in Malta during the Great War.
As the casualties mounted across the Eastern Front the island of Malta, held by the British since 1800, developed as a hospital centre for soldiers. Over twenty-five hospitals were eventually established on the island and treated over 136,000 men.
Frank Ibbett of the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps.) in Malta, 1915
Tempsford’s second victim, St Neots Advertiser, 20th August 1915
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Women and the Great War
/in Images from the warInitially, women were only expected to encourage men to enlist in the armed forces, but from the day the War was declared they were keen to do all they could to play their part in the conflict.
Within days of the declaration of war local women had set up a working party to make clothes for sick and wounded soldiers and begun to plan for a Red Cross convalescent hospital in St Neots.
Early WWI Poster aimed at Women
British Red Cross Society, Working Parties, St Neots Advertiser, 21st August 1914
St Neots VAD Red Cross Hospital, St Neots Advertiser, 14th August 1914
St Neots Advertiser, 25th September 1914
Garments for the Wounded, Woman’s Weekly 1914
Letter from Harris Marshall of Waresley, St Neots Advertiser, 16th October 1914
Local links with the island of Malta
/in Images from the warNews that Sergeant Darlow of Tempsford had died of dysentry after serving at the Dardanelles was reported in the paper on 20th August. This small notice highlighted the number of troops who died from illness while fighting in Turkey and the use of the Island of Malta as a major treatment centre for sick troops.
Frank Ibbett, of St Neots, (third from right in the photo) was a professional soldier who had enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps., in February 1915, and was based in Malta during the Great War.
As the casualties mounted across the Eastern Front the island of Malta, held by the British since 1800, developed as a hospital centre for soldiers. Over twenty-five hospitals were eventually established on the island and treated over 136,000 men.
Frank Ibbett of the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps.) in Malta, 1915
Tempsford’s second victim, St Neots Advertiser, 20th August 1915