The Widnes Ladies team are honouring First World War inspirational woman Winifred Mabel Letts this season, following Wild club Poet In Residence Lucy London’s decision to sponsor the Most Valuable Player awards this season in her memory. It is the third year in a row that Lucy has sponsored the MVP awards for the Wild women’s home matches and, in keeping with her other main activity – that of researching and raising awareness of the roles of women in the Great War – Lucy has once again decided to dedicate this year’s awards to the memory of another such woman. For the 2018/19 season, the Wild women MVP awards were dedicated to the memory of Sarah MacNaughtan who single-handedly set up and operated soup kitchens in the war zones on the western front, and in 2019/20, the awards were in honour of Merseyside born Edith Smith who became the country’s first female warranted police officer during WW1 and later worked as a nursing assistant at a hospital in Runcorn. Winifred Mabel Letts was bo...
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