Women's Emergency Corps

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An officer and a private of the Women's Volunteer Reserve (December 1917) The Employment of Women in Britain, 1914-1918 Q30382.jpg
An officer and a private of the Women's Volunteer Reserve (December 1917)
Members of the Women's Volunteer Reserve collecting waste paper, c. 1915 THE WOMENS VOLUNTEER RESERVE ON THE HOME FRONT, 1914-1918 Q107999.jpg
Members of the Women's Volunteer Reserve collecting waste paper, c.1915

The Women's Emergency Corps was a service organisation founded in 1914 by Evelina Haverfield, Decima Moore, and the Women's Social and Political Union to contribute to the war effort of the United Kingdom in World War I. The corps was intended to train woman doctors, nurses and motorcycle messengers. [1] Mona Chalmers Watson became its honorary secretary. [2] The Corps later evolved into the Women's Volunteer Reserve. The suffragist, Winifred Adair Roberts, was in the Reserve throughout World War I and spoke to the historian, Brian Harrison, about it as part of the Suffrage Interviews project, titled Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews. [3]

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  1. "Women's Emergency Corps". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  2. "Lives and Times - Number 109 Alexandra (Mona) Chalmers (1872-1936)". The Scotsman. 8 September 1905. pp. S2 37.
  3. London School of Economics and Political Science. "The Suffrage Interviews". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 6 March 2025.

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