Women In Ww1

Question 1

What did QAIMNS stand for

Answer 1

Queen Alexandra’s imperial military nursing service

Question 2

When was QAIMNS founded

Answer 2

1902

Question 3

How many nurses in QAIMNS in 1914, and how much did this rise to by 1918

Answer 3

10,000 nurses

Question 4

What did FANY stand for

Answer 4

First aid nursing yeomanry

Question 5

When was FANY set up

Answer 5

1907

Question 6

What did RAMC stand for

Answer 6

Royal army medical corps

Question 7

What did VAD Stand for

Answer 7

Voluntary aid detachment

Question 8

What did WAAC stand for

Answer 8

Women’s army auxiliary corps

Question 9

When was AAC set up

Answer 9

1917
- many women joined

Question 10

Who were VADS predominantly

Answer 10

• middle-class, single women
• little experience

Question 11

What would VADS do

Answer 11

In hospitals, basic tasks:

• cleaning floors
• changing bed linen
• cleaning out bedpans

Question 12

Women on western front usually not welcomed

Answer 12

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Question 13

Which doctor offered to take women’s medical units to the western front and create a 100 bed hospital

Answer 13

Dr inglis

• told ‘hysterical women’ were not wanted

Question 14

What did Dr Inglis propose

Answer 14

• take women’s units to the western front
• set up a 100 bed hospital

Question 15

What was the response to Dr inglis’ proposal

Answer 15

• ‘hysterical women’ were last thing wanted on the western front

Question 16

Which doctors founded the women’s hospital corps

Answer 16

• Flora Murray
• Louis Garrett
• (Elizabeth Garrett’s daughter)

Question 17

Where did the women’s hospital corps open their first military hospitals

Answer 17

• Paris
• Boulogne
• and then London

Question 18

Stobart founded a woman-only-staff hospital in Belgium

Answer 18

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Question 19

War office refused to employ women doctors, thought they had enough men (at the beginning of ww1)

Answer 19

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Question 20

What was the economical background of many volunteers at voluntary hospitals

Answer 20

• rich + powerful
• like Duchess of Sutherland

Question 21

What did the wealthy women volunteers do when uk war office didn’t want their help

Answer 21

• organized transport to France + Belgium
• where they set up hospitals + casualty clearing stations

Question 22

Which doctors travelled to Belgium to join Dr Munro and set up a first aid post in Pervyse

Answer 22

• Mairi Chisholm
• Elise Knocker

Question 23

How far away was the first aid post set up by Chisholm + Knocker from the Belgian frontline

Answer 23

• 100m away

Question 24

What were Chisholm + Knocker nicknamed by grateful soldiers

Answer 24

Angels of Pervys

Question 25

Why did Chisholm + Knocker feel the need to set up the first aid post near the Belgian frontline

Answer 25

- base hospital too far away - so many soldiers died as couldn’t be treated soon enough

Question 26

Who ran one of the largest voluntary hospitals (and closest to the frontline) in France

Answer 26

Dr Frances Ivens

Question 27

Features of the hospital run by Frances Ivens

Answer 27

- one of the largest in France - one of the closest to the frontline - 600 beds - excellent x-ray unit - performed over 7,200 operations between Jan 1915 + Feb 1919

Question 28

How many beds did the voluntary hospitals change throughout run by Frances Ivens have

Answer 28

600 beds - and an excellent X-ray unit

Question 29

The hospital run by Frances Ivens had an excellent x-ray unit

Answer 29

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Question 30

How many operations between January 1915 and February 1919 at Frances Ivens’ hospital

Answer 30

7204 operations

Question 31

What was the name of the female doctor who ran one of the largest voluntary hospitals in France

Answer 31

Frances Ivens

Question 32

What % of doctors were women at start of WW1

Answer 32

1% of doctors

Question 33

Most general hospitals didn’t accept women doctors

Answer 33

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Question 34

What job did most women have in medicine at the start of WW1

Answer 34

- GPs - hospitals specifically for women/kids

Question 35

What did war office tell women at start of WW1

Answer 35

- stay home and cover the gaps created by male doctors

Question 36

What did the nature of fighting on the western front lead to

Answer 36

- many casualties - higher demand for doctors + nurses

Question 37

What did the army ask for in 1916

Answer 37

- women to work with RAMC in Malta

Question 38

When did army ask for women to be sent to Malta to work with the RAMC

Answer 38

1916 - because of heavy casualties

Question 39

How many female doctors were working in Malta by the end of 1916

Answer 39

80 female doctors - females didn’t receive same treatment as men (They didn’t become temporary army officers, men did)

Question 40

How was treatment of men and women unequal in Malta

Answer 40

- male doctors became temporary army officers - women didn’t

Question 41

What % of doctors in Britain entered war

Answer 41

50% - created demand for doctors back home

Question 42

When were Louisa garrett + flora murray put in charge of a military hospital in London (which was staffed entirely by women)

Answer 42

1915

Question 43

What was special about the military hospital in London that Louisa Garrett and flora Murray were put in charge of in 1915

Answer 43

- entirely staffed by women

Question 44

What effect did the shortage of doctors during the war have on the attitudes towards female doctors

Answer 44

- attitudes towards female doctors became more positive (Only temporary though)

Question 45

What % of women carried out hospital work during WW1

Answer 45

20%

Question 46

Women found it difficult to find positions in hospitals after WW1, expected to return as GPs

Answer 46

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Question 47

How many London hospital schools began accepting women during the war

Answer 47

12 hospital schools

Question 48

How many qualified women doctors were there in 1911

Answer 48

610 women doctors

Question 49

How many qualified women doctors were there by 1921

Answer 49

1,500 female doctors

Question 50

After the war, female student were once again often rejected

Answer 50

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Question 51

What was the only London teaching hospital which accepted female students

Answer 51

Royal free hospital

Question 52

Lack of training of unqualified nurses in WW1 made women seem like servants

Answer 52

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Question 53

How many VADs served by 1918

Answer 53

Over 90,000 VADs

Question 54

How were VADs significant in changing the perception of the role of women

Answer 54

- showed women weren’t hysterical - showed women were able to adapt + learn - gained respect of some men

Question 55

FANYs were first women to serve officially on the western front

Answer 55

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Question 56

What was the significance of FANYs

Answer 56

- they trained in many things other than first aid - like mechanics, driving, later on radiography - self-organized - shattered stereotypes - despite digital resistance from British army, their competence + bravery garnered widespread admiration from public, soldiers, government, army

Question 57

How many soldiers did tetanus vaccine save

Answer 57

17,000

Question 58

How many soldiers were treated by WHC by end of war

Answer 58

26,000 soldiers