Women on the Home Front

As the men mobilised so too the women.  The nation needed them to do far more than keep the "home fires burning".

• As men joined up and left for the barracks and then the  battlefields it was up to the women to:
• Keep the factories working 
• Make the munitions of war
• Maintain the law as policewomen
• Feed the nation
• Knit and sew uniforms
• Keep wounded soldiers'  morale up by writing letters for them
• Cook for the army
• Write poetry and win compteitions, even against famous male poets such as Wilfred Owen
• And  keep those all important home fires burning

The top picture shows eight year old Amy's original wartime knitting needles and wool. (Photo courtesy Brodsworth Hall).