On This Day, 2 December 1918

Birmingham Mail 

Monday 2 December 1918

WOMEN WAR WORKERS

THANKSGIVING SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM

The women war workers of Birmingham took part in a very interesting thanksgiving service held at the Parish Church yesterday. It was arranged by Miss Howard (technical inspector) and Miss Thomas (welfare officer of the Board of Agriculture), and the women and girls after being received by the Lady Mayoress (Lady Brooks) in Victoria Square, marched to the church, where the service was conducted by Canon Willink. There were detachments of no fewer than 15 bodies:—Women’s Volunteer Reserve, Royal Air Force, Land Army, Women’s A.A.C., nurses, Red Cross, munition girls, National Service girls, postwomen, tram conductresses, Gas Department, porters from the London and North-Western, Midland, and Great Western Railways, communal kitchen helpers, telegraph girls, Life Brigade, and women police.