In Flanders Fields Museum en de School of History, University of Kent, presenteren in samenwerking met The Western Front Association een nieuwe reeks voordrachten over de geschiedenis van de Eerste Wereldoorlog, gratis en voor iedereen toegankelijk. De voertaal is Engels.

A significant number of women worked to support the British war effort very near the battlefields of the Western Front. This talk will give a detailed overview of the wartime activities of women who served in France and Belgium with the largest voluntary-aid organizations such as the British Red Cross, the Salvation Army and the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Using a variety of maps, photographs, film and archive material, it will underline the vital importance of these women's wartime roles in camps, canteens, rest huts and hospitals, showing how the women of these organisations filled the gaps that the British War Office were unable, or at times unwilling, to fill.

Praktisch

• donderdag 19 december 2024
• om 19 uur
• educatieve ruimte, In Flanders Fields Museum (Lakenhallen, Grote Markt, Ieper)
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