Munitions Collection

German propaganda poster, WW1
German propaganda poster, encouraging women to work in the Home Army during the First World War, for example by working in munitions factories to make grenades for soldiers to use. Date: 1914-1918

WW2 poster, Don t be fuel-ish
WW2 poster, The worker who left the lights on -- Don t be fuel-ish. Wasted electricity means less fuel to make the weapons we need for victory

David Lloyd George visiting Newport during WW1
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863-1945), British Liberal Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922

Women of Britain - World War Two poster
World War Two poster encouraging the women of Britain to answer the call and go and work in the munitions factories

Female munitions workers. By Fortunio Matania
As it became clear there would be no decisive swift victory for either side in World War I, the constant demand for munitions increased

A womens war workers football match in London, 1917
The team of munitions night workers taking the field for a football match against the day shift women, in the London district. Date: 1917

Sterling Ladies munition workers football team, WW1
The Sterling Ladies (munitioneers) football team, pictured having just defeated the Handley Page Ladies Football Club in a match at Cricklewood in 1918. Date: 1918

Women workers, World War I
Women workers packing fuse heads in the Coventry Ordnance Works during World War I

Lizzie the munition war-worker in Sheffield, WW1
Unofficially connected with Mr. Lloyd Georges department! The elephant munition-worker at Sheffield

Lloyd Georges Munition Girls
Front 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, WW1
Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson (1883-1932), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cromartie, society figure, danced and promoter of the healthy benefits of exercise

British artillery men with shells, WW1
British gunners posed with a large pile of 18 pr. field-gun shells which, according to The Sphere, " are to pound German trenches level with the earth." Date: 1916

David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister, WW1
David Lloyd George (1863-1945), British Prime Minister, with others during the First World War. The bearded man on the far left is Albert Thomas, French Minister for Munitions. Date: circa 1916

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, David Lloyd George, General
A photograph of a meeting between political and military leaders of the Allies in France, 1916

Mr. Lloyd George
Photograph of David Lloyd George, created Minister for Munitions in 1915

David Lloyd George (1863-1945) Introducing the Munitions Bil
Illustration showing David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, then Minister of Munitions

Female Munitions Workers
The Australian Premier, William Hughes, reviews female munitions workers at Cardiff, escorted by Phyllis Ayrton

The (Old) Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 18th century
The (Old) Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, used from 1741-1806. An officer training school that trained 48 cadets in mathematics, gunnery and fortifications

Spain. First Carlist War (1833-1840). Driving a convoy
Spain. First Carlist War (1833-1840)

YWCA Poster, For Every Fighter a Woman Worker, WW1
YWCA Poster, design by Adolph Treidler, For Every Fighter a Woman Worker, Care for Her through the YWCA, United War Work Campaign, First World War. circa 1918

Douglas a-26 Invader bombers close to Bonn, Germany
Vintage World War II photograph - official US military photo: Douglas a-26 Invader bombers dropping their munitions on an ammunition dump close to Bonn, Germany

Situation is serious women must hep to save it! WWI
Beating up recruits : The procession passing through Whitehall, London

British recruitment poster, Are You in this? WW1
British recruitment poster, design by Robert Baden-Powell, Are You in this? First World War. 1915

WW2 - Home Front - King George VI meets a young boy munition worker (15 year-old Leonard Fiske)

The New Krupp Munitions Factory, Essen, Germany Date: circa 1908

Ammunition wagon on its way to Admiral Ferry, Lake Erie, USA early 1900s

Gibralter South Port - munitions on dockside - Victorian period

Hope munitions dump at Ypres during the First World War

King George V with munitions workers at Holmes and Co in Hull during the First World War

A British munitions factory during the First World War

Munitions factory in WW1

British Munitions factory during WW1

Loading shells onto a lorry in a munitions factory - WW1
Loading shells onto a lorry in a munitions factory during WW1

Loading shells onto a lorry in a munitions factory - WW0
Loading shells onto a lorry in a munitions factory during WW1

Honley Scotgate Munitions Workers early 1900s

Elswick Work, Newcastle upon Tyne early 1900's

Elswick Works, Newcastle upon Tyne early 1900's

Boys at Harrow School making munitions during WW1

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, Munitions
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a smiling munitions girl handling a large shell in the factory. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Shop 7
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's story book, Shop 7, written by Kenneth Hemingway

WW2 - Gracie The Munitions Worker
A WW2 children's illustrated Gracie doll card, equipped with the uniform of a wartime female munitions worker, unfortunately missing the hat. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 British Munitions Worker
An illustration which portrays a female factory worker during WW2, possibly in the munitions industry. Date: circa 1941

WW2 British Munitions Factory
This illustration shows some workers stacking and moving WW2 munitions shells at a British factory. Date: circa 1941

The 155mm shell makes French soldier look small, WW1
WW1 The 155mm Shell makes French soldier (nicknamed Poilu) look small Date: circa 1916

Vinolia Advertisement Lady Of The lathe
An illustrated advertisement for Vinolia Co. Ltd

RMS Lusitania - propaganda medal, leaflet and other items
RMS Lusitania - Carlton ware model 6.5 inches, together with German propaganda medal, leaflet, and other items. The bronze German Lusitania medal was designed by Karl Goetz

Boer and British munition mementos
Photograph shows the Boer and British munitions (cartridges) shot, used in the second Boer War (11th October 1899- 31st May 1902)

Military Camp
Lithograph of what seems to be a military camp, with stacked munitions and heavy artillery, a soldier sits by his horse, speaking with another beside the big gun. Date: circa 1919

A destroyed munitions factory at Quievrain, Belgium
A destroyed German munitions factory at Quievrain, in occupied Belgium, after an allied bombing raid in the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Milicianos! No dsperdicieis municiones, viveres ni energias (Militia! Don't waste neither munitions, provisions nor energies)

Scene in Woolwich Arsenal, London showing an armstrong gun being made

MR M, DEATH RAY INVENTOR
Grindell Matthews, the inventor of a death ray which will destroy aircraft or explode munitions depots at a distance Date: 1924

Cartoon, Delivering the Goods (Lloyd-George)
Cartoon, Delivering the Goods - British politician David Lloyd-George delivering munitions of war on horses labelled Labour and Capital. Date: 1915

Collar of bandoleers (bandoliers), a shoulder belt used to hold sets of ammunition, with cords, rings, bullet-bag and primer. Date: 17th century

Douglas a-26 Invaders, railway track, Siegfried Line
Vintage World War II photograph - official US military photo: Douglas a-26 Invader bombers dropping their munitions on a railway track, Siegfried Line

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

ILN cover - Bren-carriers being entrained
Open 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

Furnace for making cannon balls in the days of Trafalgar. circa 1805

Group photograph of munitionettes, WW1
Group photograph of munitionettes with shells at their feet during the First World War inside a munitions factory, in the north east of England. Front and centre is Marion McNeill. Date: ww1

WW1 wicker shell cases recycled as umbrella stands, 1915
Wicker carrying-cases for German shells, repurposed as umbrella stands in France, 1915. Date: 1915

Women signing on for munitions work 1915
Beating up recruits : Women signing on for munitions work in front of the Houses of Parliament. Large numbers of women stopped to fill forms in, despite the wet and blustery weather. Date: July 1915

Bomb Store, Basra, Iraq, WW1
Bomb Store, Basra, Iraq, during the First World War. circa 1916

Leaving the Munitions Works, by Winifred Knights, WW1
Leaving the Munitions Works, watercolour by Winifred Knights, First World War. 1919

Calendar, June 1915, WW1
Calendar, June 1915 -- Munitions, First World War. By Hermann-Paul. 1914-1915

Munitions supply to Russia
Japan to the rescue! How our Far-Eastern ally supplies Russia with munitions 1915

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

Bystander front cover, Bairnsfather cartoon, German shells
Alas! My poor brother Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather on the front cover of The Bystander showing a stereotypical German munitions worker pouring glycerine into a shell case and opining, Alas

French female munitions worker making powder primers 1916
A photograph of a female munitions worker, as she makes the primers and other associated percussion cap parts for shells, in a French munitions factory

FRENCH WOMEN / MUNITIONS
A French woman in a munitions factory imagines what the effect of the shells she is making will be. Date: 1917

WOMEN / MUNITIONS
Women working in munitions factory Date: 1914 - 1918

Munition Worker Dogs WW1
Munitions making dogs discuss their work wear - not shifts, overalls! Date: circa 1916

Cartoon, After the explosion, WW1
Cartoon, After the explosion. A naive new recruit in a trench on the Western Front comments that these shells break as soon as they hit the ground! Date: 1916

Royal Ordnance Factory, Patricroft, Lancashire
Royal Ordnance Factory, Patricroft, Eccles, near Manchester, Lancashire, England

Carry On - Women in wartime silhouette, WW1
Types of Britains women armies - Land lasses, Town toilers and Sea Sirens. Three types of women during the First World War depicted rather romantically in silhouette

Women working in munitions factory, WW1
Women working in a munitions factory during the First World War. 1915

War Workers Alphabet
A poem of the alphabet showing wartime womens working jobs from A to Z, including things such ass for shepherdess

Albert Thomas / Stamp
ALBERT THOMAS (1878 - 1932) First Minister of Armament for the French Third Republic during World War I

Shell Workers, by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, WW1
Shell Workers, painting by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, First World War. 1918

Indian factory workers making munitions, WW1: shell making
" How India is doing her bit at home: a munitions factory in the Great Dependency. Shell-making: a general view of the complicated machinery which the Indians handle most deftly." 1915

Indian factory workers making munitions, 1915
" How India is doing her bit at home: a munitions factory in the Great Dependency." Cartridge and shell making in India during World War One by native Indians, for use by the British. 1915

A Mound of Aluminium, July 1940
In 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

WW2 - Men Munitions Material - Australian First Day Cover - supporting the war effort, 15th July, 1940. Date: 1940

WW1 Munitions Worker
Mary the Maid of Munitions, in bonnet and overalls with munitions factory scene behind her. An attractive and sympathetic image. Date: circa 1916

Women Munitions Workers Keighley WW1
On 23rd September 1916, the West Riding Volunteer Regiment organised a flag day and procession with marching bands

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