Women's Work 1914 - 1918

• Advertisement in the Dudley Herald, 1st June 1918
• Sunbeam Ambulance 1917
• HM Hobson Ltd, 'Accuracy' Works, Wolverhampton, 1914-1918
• Machine Gun Carrier, Clyno Engineering Co. 1919
• Machine Gun Corps, 1919

 

The outbreak of the First World War brought radical changes to the working lives of many women. With their menfolk called away to fight, and industry at full capacity, women undertook many of the occupations traditionally dominated by men.

(Photographs reproduced with permission of Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies)

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• Women's Work 1914 - 1918

• Women's Work 1914 - 1918