Role Collection (page 22)

Post Office savings bank girls in Womens Reserve Ambulance
Girls of the Post Office Savings Bank in Blythe Road, West Kensington as part of the Womens Reserve Ambulance, with one of their number, Lieutenant Yates

Mrs Wynne decorated with French Croix de Guerre
Decorated with the French Croix de Guerre and the Belgian Order of Leopold for work at the front, and pictured on the cover of The Sketch magazine when she was going to Russia with the Anglo-Russian

A model dairy farm at Carlton House Terrace, WW1
A dairying and haymaking scene, somewhat incongruously in the back garden of Lord and Lady Cowdrays London Home in Carlton House Terrace in central London

Women police, WW1
Miss Margaret Mary Damer Dawson, Chief Officer, and Miss Mary Sophia Allen, Chief Superintendent of the Womens Police during the First World War

Female taxi drivers in cab shelter, WW1 by Annie Fish
Humorous impression of lady taxi drivers drinking tea in a cab shelter and charming the cabmen official. The Taxi Drivers Union objected to women taxi cab drivers during the First World War

Female taxi drivers, WW1 by Annie Fish
Humorous illustration by Annie Fish in The Tatler showing a tongue-in-cheek impression of women taxi drivers during the First World War, more concerned with adjusting make up than driving

Lady Cowdray with one of her lady gardeners
Lady Cowdray, a strong supporter of the Womens Land Council, seen with one of the many lady gardeners who was employed on her large estate at Cowdray Park, Midhurst during the First World War

Mrs Baliol Scott teaching men how to shoot, WW1
Mrs Baliol Scott, the famous woman rifle shot, teaching boys how to shoot at the Byfleet Ladies Rifle Range of which she was a prominent member

Eve in Tatler as a nurse, WW1
Eve, the fictional Hon. Evelyn Fitzhenry, The Tatler magazines gossip columnist, pictured stylishly dressed as a nurse, the favourite occupation for the majority of high-born ladies during the First

Miss Muriel Perry, Soldiers Free Buffet at Victoria Station
Miss Muriel Perry, the capable quartermaster of the Sailors and Soldiers Free Buffet at Victoria Station during the First World War, where 200, 000 men were fed at a cost of one penny per head

Miss Angel Archdale as a land girl
Miss Angel Archdale, only daughter of Brigadier-General Archdale, C.B. who was busily engaged in farm work in the Cotswolds during the First World War

Staff & female motor drivers of Balloon Training Depot, RFC
The staff and lady motor drivers and clerks of the balloon training depot of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Date: 1917

Mrs Sprott as a Red Cross ambulance driver, WW1
Mrs Sprott, daughter of Sir George and Lady Berry of Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, pictured in her uniform as a driver of Red Cross ambulances in France

Zambrene raincoat advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Zambrene rubberless raincoat, ideal for war workers on a wet day, and to prove the point, the illustration shows a girl heading forth into the rain in her practical garb

Warland dual rims advertisement with lady driver, WW1
First World War advertisement for Warland Dual Rims for quick tyre changes - essential for the motor vehicle driver, and the chauffeuse particularly

Madge Titheradge in The Best of Luck
Madge Titheradge (1887-1961) Australian born actress, pictured in a fetching aviator costume for her role in " The Best of Luck" at which opened at Drury Lane in 1916. Date: 1916

Lady chauffeur costume from Dunhills, WW1
A tailored suit of velvet Persian skin with hat to match for the lady chauffeur obtained from Dunhill s. Date: 1916

Woman bus conductor during WWI
Woman bus conductor wearing uniform standing at the open rear platform, in World War One. Date: 1916

Woman firefighter during WWI
Woman firefighter photographed here wearing unform and holding a hose, during World War One. Date: 1916

Women working at Army Remount Depot, WW1
Soldiers places taken up by ladies from the hunting field at an Army Remount Depot. Two girls here shown mucking out the stables. Date: 1916

Girl golf caddy, WW1
A girl golf caddy at Sandy Lodge golf course during the First World War. Date: 1916

Keep the Home Fires Burning, WW1
Scenes showing women carrying on and fulfilling mens roles during the First World War while husbands, fathers, brothers and sons serve in the trenches

Abraham Lincoln a the Lyric
The actor, Mr William J. Rea as Abraham Lincoln at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith in 1919, playing the lead role in the play by John Drinkwater

Lady Motorists, 1916
Two women dressed for motoring during the First World War, which saw many women take on traditional male roles. Date: 1916

Women brewery workers, WW1
Women employees at work cleansing a vat in one of the Burton-on-Trent breweries during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women working land in Cley, Norfolk, WW1
Women sent by the Womens Political Union to a farm at Cley, Norfolk for training in farm work during the First World War. Date: 1916

Land girl in Lincolnshire, WW1
A lady worker raising a sack of wheat to be carried to a wagon during the First World War. Date: 1916

Firewomen, a rescue on an iron staircase, WW1
A firewoman demonstrating a rescue on an iron staircase using another lady as her prop. Business firms in the West End trained women in the Fire Brigade drill so they could take the place of male

Lady with carthorse and coal, WW1
A lady of Grasmere, who, on the enlistment of her servant, took on his rough work and tramped eighteen miles a day in all weathers during the First World. War

Women Signallers Territorial Corps, WW1
Women demonstrating their skills at the headquarters training school of the Women Signallers Territorial Corps in 1916. From left

A female hat shop porter, WW1
A lady porter at a hat shop in Regent Street, looking extremely smart in her uniform. Just one of the jobs women did in place of men who had joined up to fight during the First World War. Date: 1916

The War Farmers by Ralph Cleaver
Page of illustrations depicting the trials and tribulations of women working on the land in place of men during the First World War

Women working in the hothouses at Windsor, WW1
Four women gardeners in the Kings gardens at Frogmore, Windsor Castle, working in the glasshouses in place of male gardeners during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women as war-time firemen in their bunks
Members of the Womens Volunteer Reserve in bunks at the Holborn Union Workhouse for aged women, due to being in attendance day and night for duty. Date: 1916

The Womens Legion & Army Waste, WW1
Women inspecting copper vats filled with boiling soup, involved in a scheme originated by Lady Londonderry to lessen waste in camp kitchens

Wartime ferrywoman, WW1
A wartime ferrywoman at work on an English tidal river, during the First World War. Date: 1916

Lady billposters, WW1
Some of the twenty women employed by a large London billposting firm during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women working at convalescent remount depot, WW1
Scenes at a convalescent army remount, where forty to fifty hunting women were employed. The depot was under the District Remount Officer for Berkshire

Women training in aeroplane construction, WW1
In workshops provided by the London Society for Womens Suffrage women are trained in aeroplane construction. They are pictured using acetylene blow-pipes for welding metal parts. Date: 1915

A lady prompter at a London theatre during First World War
Women stage hands at the Kingsway - a lady prompter. As the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News reports, The lighter side of work behind the stage is being done now by women at the Kingsway Theatre

Women working on a tobacco farm, Norfolk, WW1
Women workers gathering the harvest on the tobacco farm at Methwold, Norfolk in 1915. Picture 1 shows them tying and looping tobacco to be placed on stays

A Facer by Wilmot Lunt
An ex-WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) worker asks her pretty friend who is still in uniform and acting as a driver, I wonder why they demobbed me before you? Don t you, Maude. Date: 1919

Farewell to the Land Girls
Princess Mary presenting medals to Land Girls in December 1919 at the Drapers Hall, at their last rally before demobilisation

The dancer, Dacia by Madame Yevonde
The dancer Dacia, famous for her role in Chu Chin Chow. In private life, her real name was Miss D. Allwood and The Bystander reports that she is engaged to be married to Colonel Critchley-Salmonson

Carrying On - The Whitehall Girl WWI womens roles
A female clerk working at Whitehall during World War One. Date: 1918

Rusticating with the Land Girl by Leonard P. Dowd
A page of sketches showing various activities of the Womens Land Army during the First World War including ploughing, threshing

Miss Gowing the hockey player as farm labourer, WW1
Miss M. G. Gowing, of the Norfolk Ladies hockey team, releasing men for the war, by working on an Essex farm during the First World War. Date: 1916

Trench Cooking for Women
Cookery lessons in a trench dug-out - a special feature at Kings College for Women, London, as training for nurses leaving for the front. Date: 1915

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