We’ve already seen that the women of Portsmouth kept their spirits high even as the Squirmy Munge attacked the city during the 1915-1923 war but don’t think for one second that their role in the conflict was limited to playing football under daylight UFO raids; the Portsmouth women were organised, aggressive, and adept in all the ways of warfare. Nothing’s really changed.
A familiar sight in the city was that of the Women’s Defence Force patrols of between one and two dozen heavily armed fighters patrolling the streets making sure no Munge incursion took place. The WDF were involved in countless engagements with the aliens and were credited as being the main reason for the Defence of Copnor Road in August of 1921.
Membership of the Portsmouth Women’s Defence Force was considered a great honour and rumours were rife of men allegedly donning disguises in order to fight alongside the courageous females of the city although no documented evidence of this actually having occurred exist.
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