content: Sorry, just saw this now. Voting rights at the time were based on property ownership. Some guys in the trenches had the vote, but almost all of them didn't. Incidentally the suffragettes were actively opposed to changing this situation, they still wanted voting to be restricted to upper class members of society, they just wanted more of them to be women. Also, when the war came along, they suspended other political activities and formed white feather brigades to shame young men in to signing up. As with their other political activities, they mostly just succeeded in pissing everyone off.