Women in War 1 & 2 - Starting 1914 

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By 1917 women made up 30%  of 175,0,00 workers. 

Sophie Gran was one of the 1st woman anesthetist with A.E.F in France. She went on to become the 1st President of California association of nurse anesthetist.

Maria Curie saw a way to apply her expertise to save the lies of the wounded soldiers. She realized that the electric magnetic radiation of x-ray could help doctors see the bullets and shrapnel embedded in the soldiers bodies, and remove them. As well as locate broken bones. She had 2 daughters. Irene, the oldest, was born in 1897 two years after Pierre and Marie married. Daughter Eve was born seven years later. Pierre died tragically shortly after Eve was born, run over by a horse carriage on a wet, slippery floor. Marie Curie was a nobel winning Scientist, not a soldier, but she knew there was one way her work could make a difference to the war effort. Sadly she passed away on July 4th 1934 from Aplastic anemia. 

More than 2500 women served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. 2500 went overseas where they served close to the front lines in hospitals on board hospital ships and in then combat zones with the field ambulance units.

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2nd World War #2

Molly Lamb Bobak was the only female Canadian Official war artist sent overseas during the 2nd World War. she went to be one of Canada’s most celebrated war Artists. during the two world wars approximately 100,000 silver crosses were given to the mothers and wives of soldiers who they killed. She was born into a stimulated cultural family, she trained at the Vancouver School of Art and, in 1945, became the only woman to to be appointed as an official Canadian war artist. She was born on the 25th of February 1920 in Vancouver B.C.; passing away in March 1, 2014 in Frederiction, NB.

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