Women and the Great War
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
