Women of WW1 Pop-up challenges

Question

There is currently one female in the WT Military Medal category - let's try and change that over this Remembrance weekend. Here are sources for nurse/female recipients

• FMP register of Military Medal awarded to nurses 3329 recipients
•  IWM digital archive - Female holders of the Military Medal WWI
• MM citations for QAIM Nursing Service

Military nurses awarded highest nursing honours

• FMP Register of the Royal Red Cross 8093 recipients
• IWM digital archive - Holders of RRC and ARRC decorations WWI

Memorial in York Minster to women who lost their lives taking part in WWI in a wide range of occupations as nurses, doctors, munitions workers, land army, mercantile marine, transport, WRNS, WRAF and volunteers of all types.

• Memorial register with list of names
• IWM digital archive - Women of the Empire memorial at York Minster 

Edit: added link for citations for Queen Alexandra's Imperial Army Nursing Service

Comments

Categories:

[[Category: Military Medal]] = suffix MM

[[Category: Royal Red Cross]] = suffix RRC or ARRC

[[Category:Women of the Empire War Memorial, York Minster, Yorkshire]]

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Hi D. This is a great idea. At the moment the IWM site

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/

says "This site is currently down for maintenance" so your links don't work. Hopefully this won't last long.

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typical! too much traffic to the website over this weekend probably.

I'll leave the links because they will work in the future but I've added a couple of alternate links

Answer 1

I've added the Royal Red Cross category and RRC suffix for Margaret Graham RRC (1860 - 1942).

Comments

Leah Rosenthal MM RRC (1879-1930) and Isabella Kate Jobson RRC (1878-1943) now both have categories and suffixes for their medals, as well as expanded biographies and sources. With the addition of Leah, Category: Military Medal includes two women.

Answer 2

IWM digital archive apparently needed an unforeseen major upgrade and is now back online. 

Many of the profiles have photos and bio outlines which can be used to kickstart a WT bio.

Given the number of recipients we will keep this challenge going until next Remembrance weekend, with the occasional reminders and updates throughout the year.

1 profile MM Nov 2023 now 2

43 profiles RRC Nov 2023 now 47

0 profile York Memorial Nov 2023 (new category)

Thanks for supporting the Great War subproject of Military & War - these women deserve their recognition for bravery and sacrifice.

Answer 3

Excellent idea, being a woman Army Nurse/Retired myself.

Comments

Thank you for your service, Alice!