women, emergency, corps, service, organisation, founded, 1914, evelina, haverfield, decima, moore, women, social, political, union, contribute, effort, united, kingdom, world, corps, intended, train, woman, doctors, nurses, motorcycle, messengers, mona, chalme. The Women s Emergency Corps was a service organisation founded in 1914 by Evelina Haverfield Decima Moore and the Women s Social and Political Union to contribute to the war effort of the United Kingdom in World War I The corps was intended to train woman doctors nurses and motorcycle messengers 1 Mona Chalmers Watson became its honorary secretary 2 The Corps later evolved into the Women s Volunteer Reserve See also editWomen s Reserve Ambulance Corps Canary girls Victory garden Women s Land Army World War I Women s Royal Air Force World War I References edit Women s Emergency Corps Spartacus Educational Retrieved 16 May 2017 Lives and Times Number 109 Alexandra Mona Chalmers 1872 1936 The Scotsman 8 September 1905 pp S2 37 Further reading editBaker Chris Women and the British Army in the First World War The Long Long Trail Chris Baker Section The Women s Volunteer Reserve nbsp This World War I article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Women 27s Emergency Corps amp oldid 1104873060, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
