The Westbury Area Family History Group will welcome Dan Allen, from the Victorian Military Society who’s talk is entitled ‘Women and the Victorian Army’.
When the First World War broke out in 1914 many women wanted to do their bit for King and Country. At that time, the only possibility was to become an Army nurse or to work in a military hospital.
Dan Allen’s talk describes how this changed so that by 1917 the British Army, for the first time in its history, had women soldiers carrying out duties that had always previously been done by men and how women soldiers served both at home and behind the battle fronts in France and Flanders and later with the Army of Occupation in Germany.
The talke will be held on Thursday 27th July.
The Westbury Area Family History Group meets every 4th Thursday of the month at 7.15pm in the foyer of Westbury’s Methodist Church.
The branch has regular interesting and informative talks and discussions by members and guest speakers on all aspects of family history and general history.
