Munitions Collection (page 4)

Industrial Ireland in wartime: how Belfast is doing its bit, including with making ships and munitions, gathering sphagnum moss for wound dressings, and sending men for the front. 1916

Cartoon, French munitions factory workers, WW1
Cartoon, French munitions factory workers, one male, one female. The man asks the woman: What does your husband do at the moment? She replies: He stays at home and mends my silk stockings. Date: 1917

Cartoon, Men in munitions factory, WW1
Cartoon, two men working in a French munitions factory. One man comments to his colleague: Be careful with that shell, it could be the one that avenges your brother. Date: 1917

Testing for flaws in the sound, Creusot works, France 1915
Every 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

George V and Queen Mary official visit, WW1
King George V and Queen Mary on an official visit to a munitions factory during the First World War. On the left behind a rope is a large group of women munitions workers

Group photo, women police officers in uniform, WW1
Group photo, women police officers in uniform, Women Police Service (WPS), on security duty at a Munitions Factory during the First World War. Also included are a military officer and a terrier dog

George V and Queen Mary visit munitions factory, WW1
King George V and Queen Mary visiting a munitions factory during the First World War. With them is an early woman police officer, Chief Inspector Reinhold (right)

Group photo, munitions factory workers, Hereford, WW1
Group photo of women munitions factory workers in Hereford, together with two early women police officers, including Lilian Maud Newell (back row, towards the right)

US Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1905

Cartoon, Their munitions factories, WW1
Cartoon, Their munitions factories. An Italian soldier carries a large bowl of shells, made to look like large macaroni. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Boche intellectuals, WW1
Cartoon, Boche intellectuals, showing a variety of German boffins doing their work. Date: 1916

WW2 poster, request for salvage
WW2 poster by Fougasse, Please put out all your paper, metal, bones, rags and rubber for salvage, as they can help make tanks, munitions, tyres and planes. Date: circa 1940

WW2 poster, Official scrap iron dumps, bring victory nearer. The Ministry of Supply requesting old iron such as ploughshares, railings, fenders and fire irons for converting into munitions

Winston Churchill at Enfield Lock Munition Works
Winston 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, 1918
Winston 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

Men training on Doniford Gun Park Range, Somerset, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Date: late 1930s

Unbeaten team of lady footballers, WWI
The 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 cartoon
Distressing 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

Supply of shells on the Western Front, WW1
A supply of shells on the Western Front, WW1. Date: 1914-1918

Women gunnery opticians, Illustrated War News, WW1
Women gunnery " opticians". Learning gun-sight lens making at Northampton Institute during the First World War. Date: 1917

WW1 Munitions Factory
World War 1 Munitions Factory, England. Thought to be at Patricroft, Eccles, Manchester Date: 1910s

Schoolboys help in shell making
Boys 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 Factory
A 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

Girls at work making ammunition boxes, WW1
Young women manufacturing ammunition boxes, fixing together the dovetailed pieces at an unidentified British factory during the First World War. Date: 1915

WW1 - Titled Women Munitions Workers
The 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

Pears Soap Advertisement, WW1 - munitions worker
Advertisement for the famous Pears soap, the first in their Womanhood in War-Time series. No. 1 is My Lady of Munitions and features a munitions worker or munitionette in uniform at a wash bowl. 1917

Munitions Girl by Helen McKie
Look 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 worker
Front 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

WWI Poster, Wanted Men Munitions Money
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, design by Bert Thomas, Wanted Men Munitions Money. If you can neither enlist nor make munitions, buy the new 4 1/2% War Loan! Date: circa 1916

Women workers manufacturing synthetic phenol, WW1
Women munition workers testing the temperature of phenol as it runs into drums during the production of explosives. Date: 1918

Womens War Work WW1 Munitions
A painting of a munitions worker by Edith Harwood (1894-C1916) wearing the blue uniform of overalls and bonnet, the woman holds, with gloved hands, a shell

Women Workers WW1 Y. W. C. A Womens Day
Poster commemorating Womens Day, a fund-raising event on behalf of the Womens Wartime Workers Fund. The Young Womens Christian Association (Y.W.C.A) set up centres for munitions workers, W.A.A.C s

Munitions workers waiting for the tea hooter, WW1
Women 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, WW1
Female 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 Institute
Scenes showing the training of munition workers at Shoreditch Technical Institute (run by London County Council) during the First World War

Munitions Factory 1915
A scene in a British munitions factory, owned by Vickers Ltd. Shown here is the process of nosing a shell. Metal cylinders are heated in a furnace by the man shown in the foreground

Munitions output during 1915 and 1916, WW1
Graph demonstrating the rise in munitions output in the UK from September 1915 to July 1916 with dips in production visible due to public holidays. Date: 1916

Soldiers as munitions workers
Having enlisted early in the war, and been sent back from the front, many British soldiers found work in factories producing war munitions. Date: 1915

Munitions Workers WW1. Man and woman workers in Munitions factory, captioned, The only kind of matches allowed in a munition factory. Referring to safety notice on wall. Date: circa 1916

Women Munitions Workers WW1. A trio of women munitions workers, one holding 2 shell cases. The rhyme reads, Fron Sunday morning to Saturday night, munitions are going strong

Chicken Munitions Shells WW1. A brown hen is proudly Doing her bit! by producing more shells for the war effort. Date: circa 1916

Woman Munition Worker 18 Pounder Gun. Drawing of a munitions worker, designed by Miss A.D. Wargent, a worker in factory Five, in aid of the 18 pdr gun fund, June 1918

Women War Work WW1 Munitions. Woman Munition Worker tuining shells in a munitions factory Date: 1918

Womens Work WW1 Munitions. With Fond greetings from a Munition worker helping to Carry on This badge proves I m a Worker, who can ne er be dubbed a Shirker Date: circa 1916

Women Munitions Worker WW1. Woman in munitions factory proudly points to a large bomb and exclaims, Thats the stuff to give em! Date: circa 1916

Women Munitions Work WW1. Rather glamourous munitions worker in purple dungarees standing next to 2 shells, with caption, You should see how the girls fill them! Date: circa 1916

Lady Colebrooke Munitions Worker WW1. Lady Alexandra Colebrooke in working garb worn by her in munitions plant in Great Britain Date: circa 1916

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