Name/TitlePin flag: Edinburgh Women's Emergency Corps
About this objectSmall pin flag bearing the words 'Edinburgh Women's Emergency Corps' on one side and 'War Hospital Supplies (29 Drumsheugh Gardens) Flag Day Nov. 3rd 1917' on the other.
Date Made1917
PeriodFirst World War
Place MadeScotland, Edinburgh
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 42 x W: 37 mm (including pin)
H: 23 x W: 38 mm (without pin)
Subject and Association KeywordsFirst World War
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's war work
Subject and Association KeywordsNursing
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://www.iwm.org.uk/history/fundraising-pins-and-badges:
Fundraising was a feature throughout the First World War, although the heyday of street collections was 1914-1915, before conscription and rationing took a grip on the nation. There were flag-day appeals to support prisoners of war, refugees (especially Belgian), the wounded (especially the blinded or ‘crippled’), and for organisations such as Red Cross & St John’s. The ‘flags’ (usually paper, sometimes tin, silk, wool, cloth, pressed foil, or natural ‘sprigs’) survive in surprising numbers. Often they are found inside autograph books, with the collection of entries from wounded soldiers a particular craze amongst middle- and upper- class girls; the same girls were often also the flag sellers.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeFlag
Object numberGWL-2016-97-9
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved