How the Girl Guides Won the War
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Janie Hampton. How the Girl Guides Won the War
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
Prologue: Pax Ting
1 We are the Girl Scouts
2 Brownies and Bluebirds
3 Marching in Gas Masks
4 Kinder-Guides
5 Golondrinas
6 The Clover Union of Poland
7 Blackout Blues
8 Dampers and Doodlebugs
9 Brownies in China
10 Thrift and Gift
11 Princesses and Paupers
12 Baedeker Bombing
13 Jersey Island Guides
14 Japanese Internment
15 The Warsaw Uprising
16 Three Aunties
17 Guides in Auschwitz
18 Giant Pandas and Frozen Alligators
19 The City of Polish Children
20 The Armored Angel of China
21 The Army of Goodwill
22 Into the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgements
Bibliography and Sources
Index
Copyright
About the Publisher
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JANIE HAMPTON
How the Girl Guides Won the War
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The Scouting movement was concerned that Baden-Powell would have less time to spend on it, but there was no need to worry — he remained as involved as ever. The following year, Olave gave birth to their first son, Peter, named after their favourite fictional character, Peter Pan. She was happy to produce babies, but not very keen on looking after them — she did not like small children. Leaving her own in the care of a nanny and nursery maids, Olave had time on her hands, and was thus a serious threat to her sister-in-law. When in 1914 Olave offered her services to Guiding, Agnes was determined not to be displaced from her position as Chief Guide. Undeterred, Olave trained as a Guider and became a Company Captain. With her natural common sense she had a way with the girls, and proved to be popular, which further strained her relationship with Agnes.
As soon as war was declared in August 1914, young women, many of them Girl Guides, began training as nurses with the Voluntary Aid Detachment, First-Aid Nursing Yeomanry and with the Guides themselves. Several thousand other Guides volunteered as part of a ready-made workforce to replace the young men sent to the trenches, and they soon demonstrated that young women could be as brave and useful as men. They looked after children, worked on farms, practised fire-drill by carrying each other out of first-floor windows and down ladders, and demonstrated how to give artificial respiration.
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