#munitionettes

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A group of munitionettes sealing shells.

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British women who died on August 9, 1917, in an explosion at a chemical works. Female “munitionettes” produced 80% of the British army’s weapons and shells. More than 200 died during the war due to fires, explosions, TNT poisoning, or other dangers of their work.

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Munitionettes working at the Lyddite Filling House, No. 14 National Filling Factory, Hereford.

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Female munitions workers stacking shell castings at a British shell filling factory.

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A woman worker operating a naval gun rifling machine, in the new gun factory, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, May 1918.

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Female workers pull trolleys of shells in the grounds of the National Shell Factory at Parkgate Street, Dublin, during the First World War.

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Female munitions workers operating an extruder machine during the production of 6-inch howitzer shells at the National Shell Filling Factory at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, during the First World War.