Women's Emergency Corps

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. The suffragist, Winifred Adair Roberts, was in the Reserve throughout World War I and spoke to the historian, Brian Harrison, about it as part of the Suffrage Interviews project, titled Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews.^[3]

An officer and a private of the Women's Volunteer Reserve (December 1917)

See also

• Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps
• Canary girls
• Victory garden
• Women's Land Army (World War I)
• Women's Royal Air Force (World War I)