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munitions factories has never been sufficiently recognized. They had to work under conditions of real danger to life and limb, and what some of them dreaded still more, of grotesque disfigurement some of the pearls of the shell filling factories was toxic jaundice resulting from TNT poisoning. This turned their faces a bright repulsive yellow. The poor girls were nicknamed “canaries”. They were quite proud of this designation as they had earned it in the path of duty.” From the war memoirs of Lloyd George.
The crisis caused by the second U-boat campaign lead to the creation of the woman’s land army in 1917. Many of those who served were city girls from middle classed families, quite unaccustomed to hard physical labor. Few failed to impress the initially doubtful farmer with their grit determination and in the end they saved their country from starvation. Other women joined the forestry corps and felled trees in shipbuilding and other industries.
At the start of the war almost the ...

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