| Description | DOB: 1908, near Hayes, Middlesex
DOD: Unknown
Pre First World War daily received postcards from her grandmother. Day trips to her grandmothers house. Grew up in a Christian household. During the First World War, her uncle was killed on his 21st birthday, her father was in the Royal Army Medical Corps and spent 3 and a half years as a POW. Scarce food due to the war. Her mother took in girls who were working at the munition factory in Hayes. She was influenced by the 'Canary Girls', those that worked in the munitions factory whose skin had turned yellow due to working with explosive chemicals.
Postcards from her grandmother
WW1, the death of her uncle, her fathers service and the lodging of the 'Canary Girls'
Typed, 21 pages
World War One, Hayes, Munitions, Canary Girls |