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Description: | British civilian served with Women's Police Service at munitions factories in GB, 1916-1918
REEL 1: Recollections of period with Women's Police Service in GB, 1916-1918: story of joining Women's Police Service, 1916; training; description of duties in munitions factories at Waltham Cross, Herts, and Pembray, Wales; problem of poisonous fumes; role in providing first aid; question of strikes in munitions factories; pay and conditions for munitions workers; question of munitions workers being sacked for taking metal items into factories; problem of conflict between English and Irish girls; uniform; public attitude to women in police service; amusing memories of char woman; accommodation; question of being sworn in; story of Lady Londonderry and hospital for wounded; question of links between Women's Police Service and Suffragettes; memory of Commandant Margaret Damer Dawson; duties in Small Arms Factory, Enfield; question of women's police patrols in London; memory of Commandants Mary Allen and Margaret Damer Dawson; description of patrol duty in Leicester Square, London. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | West, Gabrielle Mary | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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