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Dame Agnes Elizabeth Weston

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Dame Agnes Elizabeth Weston

by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, laid on cardboard, circa 1918
19 7/8 in. x 15 7/8 in. (506 mm x 404 mm) overall
Given by the sitter's great nephew, Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, 1965
Primary Collection
NPG 4437

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Current affairs

Despite the suspension of the Suffrage movement during the war, the Government finally agrees to grant women the right to vote as recognition of their vital role in the war effort. However, The Representation of the People Act only extended the franchise to female householders and university graduates over 30. Equal rights to men were not granted until 1928.

Art and science

War Poet, Wilfred Owen, is killed in action just a week before the end of the war. His poems, including Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth, tell of the horror of war in the trenches and the tragic loss of a generation of young men who enthusiastically signed up to fight in a war that became seen as futile rather than glorious.

International

British representative, Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, signs the Armistice calling a ceasefire on the 11th November 1918 and ending the war. Germany and Austria loose their empires and become republics. Around the same time a global flu pandemic brakes out - known in England as Spanish Flu - killing 50-100 million people within a year compared to 15 million fatalities from the four years of war.

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Donald Murray Ligertwood

07 January 2018, 16:10

I am Donald M Ligertwood of Royal Marines Historical Society 609.
I would like to inform You it is the One Hundred Anniversary this Year 2018 of Agnes Elizabeth Weston ( Aggie Weston) the Sailors Friend also Wintz, I have had it noted by the Plymouth Armed Forces Federation who will be setting up a large wreath lay in October 2018 it was My finding for this to be carried out regards Donald RMHS 609