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Dr Tessa Dunlop, historian and author of Army Girls, talked about the importance of the women during this time. She highlighted how the women were responsible for feeding, packing kit bags and sewing kit bags for the troops, as well as typing up troop orders and marches and logistically moving them around the country.
Dr Tessa Dunlop, historian and author of Army Girls.
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Dr Tessa Dunlop, historian and author of Army Girls, talked about the importance of the women during this time. She highlighted how the women were responsible for feeding, packing kit bags and sewing kit bags for the troops, as well as typing up troop orders and marches and logistically moving them around the country.
Dr Tessa Dunlop, historian and author of Army Girls.
If you have up to two million men based in Britain, training all over the country, who's feeding them? Who's packing their kit bags? Who's sewing their kit bags? Who's typing up the troop orders and the marches? Who's logistically shunting them from one end of the country to the other end of the country? Women.
