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Women of Britain - World War Two posterWorld War Two poster encouraging the women of Britain to answer the call and go and work in the munitions factories
Lloyd Georges Munition GirlsFront cover of a book describing womens experiences in a munitions factory during the First World War with a detailed account by an anonymous female shell-maker
Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson, WW1Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson (1883-1932), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cromartie, society figure, danced and promoter of the healthy benefits of exercise
Sterling Ladies munition workers football team, WW1The Sterling Ladies (munitioneers) football team, pictured having just defeated the Handley Page Ladies Football Club in a match at Cricklewood in 1918. Date: 1918
Lizzie the munition war-worker in Sheffield, WW1Unofficially connected with Mr. Lloyd Georges department! The elephant munition-worker at Sheffield. Lizzie, a circus elephant was a familiar but incongruous sight on the cobbled streets of Sheffield
Advert for the Ministry of Food 1940The weeks food facts No. 6. If you eat more than you need, you are wasting food as surely as if you had thrown it away. So eat what you need, but no more. Buy wisely and cater strictly
WW2 - Home Front - King George VI meets a young boy munition worker (15 year-old Leonard Fiske) during his inspection of a famous munitions factory - the lad continued to feed revolver bullets into
Modern era. Arquebusier. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019
Scene in Woolwich Arsenal, London showing an armstrong gun being made. This gun was introduced into the British Army in 1859
Save your old waste paper for conversion into munitions: a vital contribution to the war effort. Double page spread from The Illustrated London News. Date: 1941
Salve it, 1942Salve it article, 1942, about saving every scrap of paper for the war effort. Waste paper is a munition of war. Date: 1942
ILN cover - Bren-carriers being entrainedOpen rail trucks being loaded with Bren-gun carriers by their crews in June 1940, when all munitions production in Britain was ramped up in the face of a threat of German invasion. Date: 1940
Ladies at a factory in Scotland keep munition works going at the weekend, lady seen on the left is Mrs Godfrey Collins, whose husband was Liberal Member of Parliament. Date: 1916
Photograph showing a time-fuse from a German shrapnel-shell which burst over British lines. Date: 1915
Harlene hair tonic advertisement, WW1First World War advertisement for Harlene hair products, discussing in great detail the alarming epidemic of hair troubles resulting from war conditions
A Mound of Aluminium, July 1940In response to the appeal for aluminium from Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, families hand in their spare pots and pans to aid the war effort. 1940
The Munition Girls by Bernhard HughTwo former munitions workers recognise themselves in a painting of a factory during the First World War, now hanging at the Royal Academy Exhibition at Burlington House. Date: 1919
Women welders at work, WW1Women welders at work on pieces of metal at a school opened at Notting Hill Gate by the Womens Service Branch of the London Society for Womens Suffrage during the First World War
Woman Munition Worker WW1. Woman in munition factory, powders her nose in view of male supervisor, Captioned, Don t go putting the powder where it is not wanted. Date: circa 1916
Woman Munition Worker and Shells WW1. A young woman sits posing on a pile of shells in the munitions factory. Caption reads, One of the little ducks helping to hatch the shells Date: circa 1916
WW1 cartoon on postcard - munition workerExpecting a rise shortly. Humorous, First World War postcard depicting a female munition worker jauntily sitting on a barrel of dynamite with a cigarette. A health and safety nightmare. Date: c.1916
The Country House Season 1915 by Charles Robinson, WW1House party at Castle Bareacres coming down to dinner during the munitions season. A pastiche on the traditional, upper class house party of the pre-war era
Munition workers guard of honour at Percy wedding, WW1Munition workers forming a guard of honour at the wedding of Miss Stella Drummond to Lord Eustace Percy (third son of the late Duke of Northumberland) at St. Margaret s, Westminster
Womens Right-to-Serve march, 1915The womens right-to-serve procession as it passed through Westminster, London. The demonstration, which took place on July 17th 1915
Women welding bomb cases, WW1Women workers wear goggles to fix the tops of bomb cases in position by welding during the First World War. Date: 1916
Creche for the children of munitions workers, WW1Dinner time at a creche for the children of women munition workers at Birmingham. According to the caption in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Advertisement, Ministry of Labour Munition Concerts, WW2Advertisement, Ministry of Labour Munition Concerts, organised by ENSA. circa 1940s
Ann Todd gives in her appliances for the war effortActress Ann Todd photographed handing in her spare household appliances to the local W.V.S. office in Berkshire. In 1940, Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production
Women Munitions Work WW2A munition worker in green hat, overalls and a dirty face stands proudly in front of a pyramid of shells. The caption reads, May be I do look black but I ain t no slacker
Women WW1 Munitions Hand GrenadeA studio portrait of a woman munition worker in mob cap and overalls. She stands in front of a small table on which lays a union flag. In her right hand she holds a hand grenade. Date: circa 1916
Women munition-makers 1916Women needed by the hundred thousands to work in munitions factories, while the men were at War fighting. Showing women been trained at Battersea Polytechnic, London. Date: 1916
Testing for flaws in the sound, Creusot works, France 1915Every shell was tested for flaws by the sound, being hammered, in the background a man seen weighing each shell, in order to ensure its nanswering to the exact regulation weight
The Second soviet Occupation (1944-1991). Large areas of Latvia become military bases and firing ranges. Occupation Museum. Riga. Latvia. Europe
History. World War II. Latvia. Bullets found in the field of Battle near and More. Over 200 Latvians died between September 26 to 29, 1944
Winston Churchill at Enfield Lock Munition WorksWinston Churchill making a speech at Enfield Lock Munition Works, 1916. Mrs Clementine Churchill is seated at the table. Date: 1916
Winston Churchill with female munitions workers, 1918Winston Churchill, when he was Minister of Munitions, is escorted through the yards by female munitions workers at Georgetowns filling works near Glasgow on a visit on 9th October 1918. Date: 1918
Unbeaten team of lady footballers, WWIThe undefeated team of Humber girls, made up of munitions girls from the Humber factory. The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News comments that they play, serious football
A Mere Matter of Form by Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoonDistressing mistake of the cook recently released from a munition factory. A familys cook absent-mindedly shapes the pudding for that day into a shell, much to the shock and panic of her employers
Schoolboys help in shell makingBoys of the Acton and Chiswick Polytechnic School spending a holiday making shell caps at an engineering works at Willesden during the First World War. Date: 1915
Messrs Kynochs War Munition FactoryA page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News with pictures reporting on the work being done at Kynochs war munitions factory at Witton, Birmingham. Date: 1915
WW1 - Titled Women Munitions WorkersThe first contingent of Titled Society ladies who volunteered to work for Messrs. Vickers, Sons and Maxim as shell makers
WW1 - French Women working in Munitions Factory Date: 1916
Munitions Girl by Helen McKieLook at the girls who REALLY work To strafe the German and the Turk - The girls who slave at making shells And scorn the screeds of H. G
Illustrated War News - King decorates munition workerFront cover of The Illustrated War News with a photograph of King George V decorating Miss Lizzie Robinson, a munitions worker from Glasgow, for excellent conduct and attendance at her work
Women workers manufacturing synthetic phenol, WW1Women munition workers testing the temperature of phenol as it runs into drums during the production of explosives. Date: 1918
Munitions workers waiting for the tea hooter, WW1Women munitions workers outside the National Control Canteen, run by female volunteers, waiting for the tea hooter to sound
Tea Time in Dining Hall of National Control Canteen, WW1Female munitions workers in the dining hall of the National Control Canteen, run by voluntary lady workers to provide cheap, nutritious meals for employees. Date: 1916
Training munition workers at Shoreditch Technical InstituteScenes showing the training of munition workers at Shoreditch Technical Institute (run by London County Council) during the First World War