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3 - ‘That Glorious Comradeship’

Female Veteran Groups in the 1920s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2018

Alison S. Fell
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University of Leeds
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Chapter 3 focuses on collective expressions of female veteran identity, examining the publications and activities of two groups of female war veterans: French war nurses, and British ex-members of the Queen Mary Army Auxiliary Corps. These groups of women formed associations in the early 1920s that were modelled on those formed by their male counterparts. As was the case for male veteran associations, they had both private and public functions, on the one hand providing networks of support and care for their members, and on the other operating as political lobby groups attempting to draw public attention to women’s sacrifices and contributions to the war, and arguing for equal treatment by the state in relation to pensions and other veteran benefits. I explore the uses made by these networks and groupings by former nurses and auxiliary workers, and in particular trace the trajectories of women who continued to make use of their veteran status to allow them to access professions or roles that may otherwise have been unavailable to them.
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Print publication year: 2018

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  • ‘That Glorious Comradeship’
  • Alison S. Fell, University of Leeds
  • Book: Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War
  • Online publication: 23 June 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348935.004
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  • ‘That Glorious Comradeship’
  • Alison S. Fell, University of Leeds
  • Book: Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War
  • Online publication: 23 June 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348935.004
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  • ‘That Glorious Comradeship’
  • Alison S. Fell, University of Leeds
  • Book: Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War
  • Online publication: 23 June 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348935.004
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