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Help MEMORIAL fund a memorial dedicated to the women of WW2 next to the
Cenotaph in London. They have been overlooked for long enough... Every household in Britain knows a World War Two heroine, but you'd never know it. There are 60,000 war memorials in Britain rightly honouring those who died for their country, but the names of women seldom appear. More than seven million women stepped into the gap left by the millions of men sent to war between 1939 and 1945. They did every job imaginable - and many unimaginable to women to ensure the men had a home and country to come back to. Over six hundred thousand women joined the armed forces, many of them teenagers, some even lying about their age. They aimed anti-aircraft guns, were shot at, injured and killed. Thousands more drove fire engines and ambulances during The Blitz, which killed 30,000 people. Beautiful young women with everything to live for were maimed and scarred making weapons and ammunition. A further 56,000 joined the Women's Land Army and rose before dawn to feed animals and grow food, living in huts with no electricity or running water. In towns and cities they built ships, repaired trains, drove buses, ran soup kitchens, worked as air raid wardens, cracked enemy codes, nursed the injured and dying. For the first three years of the war, |
OVER 7 MILLION HEROINES - BUT YOU'D NEVER KNOW IT |
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 millions of women of all ages volunteered and sacrificed for Britain until Churchill introduced conscription. And how have we thanked them...? By letter? No. They were just told to go home and give their jobs back to the men. Medals? Very few, in fact less than 1%. Monuments to say thank you and to remind future generations of what they did? No - you have to go to America, Canada, New Zealand or Australia for those. But you could help change history and help right a wrong that has gone on for 58 years THE MEMORIAL TO THE WOMEN OF WORLD WAR TWO |
was a teenager in the ATS. But to build the memorial, we need £7,600,000. We have already raised £1,600,000 but need a further £600,000 and we've got to raise it soon. The women still alive to whom we all owe so much are in their eighties. We must move quickly. Please send a donation in an envelope, with your name, address and date of birth. In return we will put your details inside a time capsule within the Memorial so that you too will be immortalised in memory of them. Send it to: Memorial, 39 Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge, East Riding, YO41
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