#munitionettes

A group of munitionettes sealing shells.

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.

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

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

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

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.