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Great War Stories 1 - Lady Liverpool
Great War Stories 1 - Lady Liverpool
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2014 Documentary War
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Great War Stories
Great War Stories is a series of 35...
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Another Kiwi woman who supported soldiers
Nearly all [schoolchildren] became such good knitters that they could watch the blackboard and take in the lesson while still keeping the needles going.– From archive material in the film
For the Empire and for Freedom / We all must do our bit; / The men go forth to battle, / The women wait — and knit.– A poem on the cover of Her Excellency's Knitting Book