The Role of Women during WW1

The role of Women during WW1

The below shows footage of the roles of women during ww1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMCOzuE1Lvo

Below are posters of the what Women could do during WW1

Notes on Fashion during WW1

Fashion During WW1 in short

The main fashion type was Edwardian style and the best figure to have was the 'S' shape.

Before the War Designers would have individual clients privately look at there clothes but during the war things changed and The birth of Fashion shows came along and it was a great success attracting loads of people.

The ideal Woman's skirt was wide at the hips and narrow at the feet but this wasn't always necessarily affordable.

During the War Farmers coats were used by the Military because of how efficient they were for military uses.

Trench Coat became practical for men and women.

Men's Fashion was alot more simple compared to Woman's there was by far less accessories.

These pictures are Examples of The Fashion during WW1

Women's land Army

Women's Land Army

Women's land army

-Worked on farms
-They were traditionally male jobs
-got paid £1.12 a week
-had two uniforms,one for practical and one for service use

communications

My Research on Comnmunications

In October 1918, as the war neared its end, 194 American soldiers found themselves trapped by German soldiers. They were cut off from other Allied soldiers and had no working radios. The only chance they had of alerting anybody about their desperate situation was to send a pigeon with their co-ordinates attacked to its leg. The pigeon's name was Cher Ami. When released it flew 25 miles from behind German lines to the Americans headquarters. Cher Ami covered the 25 miles in just 25 minutes. The pigeon was, in fact, shot through the chest by the Germans but continued to fly home. With the "Lost Battalion's" co-ordinates, the Americans launched a rescue and the 194 men were saved. Cher Ami was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm for its astonishing flight. As with other pigeons, it would not have known where the American's nearest headquarters was - its natural homing instincts took over.

I got this from- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/pigeons_and_world_war_one.htm

This interested me because it shows how pigeons could be used to peoples advantages whereas now we don't really use pigeons for anything which helps us.

Letters were also a great way of communicating during WW1 this was more commonly used by soldiers as a way of communicating with family and friends.

world war 1 pictures