Voluntary Aid Detatchment - Memories of War

Egham Women Volunteers in the Red Cross 1914-1918

In conjunction with Egham Museum’s ‘Women: Wives, Workers & War’ exhibition which ran from November 2018 – June 2019, Museum volunteer and researcher Geoff Meddelton explores some of the exhibition’s themes in more depth. Egham was home to a Red Cross Hospital, the Princess Christian’s Military Hospital in Englefield Green, Read more…

By Curator, 6 years21st April 2019 ago

First World War

Nurse! – Propaganda for Women

For the middle and upper class women, who had very few career options, the temptation of actually working to help the country appealed greatly. Many of Britain’s women worked in munitions, as clerks, or were lured into nursing by posters such as “The Greatest Mother in the World” (fig. f). Read more…

By Curator, 6 years20th April 2019 ago