22 Badass Pictures Of Women During World War I

Left: A British recruitment poster urging women to work in the munition factories as part of Britain's home front during World War I, circa 1916. Right: A World War I–era British poster showing women working at a lathe in a factory complex.

Munition workers finish small-arms cartridges at the Woolwich Arsenal in London, 1918.

Target practice in Wakefield, Massachusetts, circa 1916.

Dispatch rider during World War I, 1917.

Nurses of the British Yeomanry Corps place a wounded soldier on a stretcher, 1915.

Left: A Salvation Army worker writes a letter home for a wounded soldier. Right: British nurses, circa 1916.

Two members of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps carrying wreaths to place on the graves of British soldiers buried at Abbeville, France, 1918.

Left: Pilot Marjorie Stinson poses beside her aircraft, wearing a dress underneath a large bomber jacket and a pilot's cap with glasses, 1917. Right: Mabel St Clair Stobart in the field, circa 1913. She founded the Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps, and organized hospitals in Europe during World War I.

Women forestry workers sit on a pile of logs enjoying their lunches, 1918.

War workers feed the charcoal kilns at a factory, circa 1916.

A munitions worker operating a machine in an armaments factory, circa 1915.

Posters encouraging women to join in the war effort, 1918.

A war worker fixes nose clips onto gas masks at a factory in London, circa 1918.

Left: A worker at an American munitions factory, circa 1918. Right: A war worker stands in front of the furnaces at the South Metropolitan Gas Company in London, 1918.

Two munitions workers stand beside examples of the shells produced at the National Shell Filling Factory in England, circa 1917.

A war worker cleans inside the barrel of a naval gun at an Ordnance Works factory in London, circa 1918.

Women parade in their military uniforms in New York City, circa 1918.