NAM.1998-01-78-23

One of three large scrapbooks. From the papers of Dame Florence Leach (Dame Simpson). Book 1: Pages of newspaper cuttings and photographs in book. Clips from Daily Express, the Times, Daily News, the Sunday Pictorial, the Daily Sketch, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, Daily Chronicle, Evening Standard, St James’s Gazette, Army Council Appeal, Evening News, Hastings and St Leonard’s Pictorial Advertiser, Saturday Evening Post, Globe, Yorkshire Herald, Daily Telegraph, John Bull, the Ladies Field, the Bystander, Christian Science Monitor USA. Relating to the work of women in service, army cooks and food. The place of women in war, women in khaki, women’s war duty, women for camp kitchens, Women’s Legion, camp cooks and motor drivers, French women in Barracks, results achieved by uniform, women cooks at a convalescent camp, girls who face the fires, how to live on 5/- a week, work for women without conscription, women to join the army in France, the work of the WAAC in France, women’s army huts, Women tend our soldiers graves, Wrens and Wacks, last tribute to WAAC, war workers honoured, Mrs Long’s death.

World War One, Peace (1918-1921)