WW1Mujer

Belén Santos

German mother smarts up her boy, who is ready to go war

WW1 Soldier Kiss Goodbye A soldier says goodbye as he is shipped out in

preparation for the war. New York, 1917.

Female WWI war workers mix chemicals in a munitions plant

Members of the Women's Royal Air Force arrive at Buckingham Palace, London, to attend a party for war workers in 1919

Women war workers, including the distinctively white-capped and aproned VAD nurses, parade outside Buckingham Palace in 1918

Female ambulance workers, such as this group photographed in November 1915, served both at home and on the front line

While some women became nurses, others worked in hospital workshops, such as this one at the Kensington War Hospital, making prosthetic limbs

Women painting a transport station during the First World War

Women drivers of horse-drawn Mail vehicles, a job until the War reserved for males.

Women police WW1

1915. Occupied France.

Two college girls sawing a log as part of their agricultural work in May 1918

Margaretha Geertruida "M'greet" Zelle McLeod (7 Aug 1876 – 15 Oct 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.

Members of the first Women’s Battalion of Death - they sacrificed their hair in an accepted act to to give them equality.