Millicent Press

Member Laura Probert's book is based on research into local newspapers. The author has recorded a wide variety of activity by local women, many of whom were at work for the first time; some became VAD nurses, others were in munitions and many just collected money and goods for soldiers and refugees. there is a very useful chapter on the Ramsgate air raids which began in May 1915, interesting sections on food and rationing, letters home, the Dover Patrol, munitions and the VAD. I was not aware that the Women's Institutes, so well known in the Second World War and after, were first introduced here from Canada in September 1915. The book concludes with a good bibliography.