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  • munition factories where the appointment of welfare officers was made compulsory by legislation and was monitored by the Health of Munition Workers Committee...
    26 KB (2,860 words) - 12:28, 19 November 2024
  • A loitering munition, also known as a suicide drone, kamikaze drone, or exploding drone, is a kind of aerial weapon with a built-in warhead that is typically...
    60 KB (5,151 words) - 19:17, 21 November 2024
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    These are munition workers who died of TNT poisoning during the manufacture of ammunition for the front lines of World War I. Working with TNT caused many...
    16 KB (859 words) - 12:17, 25 August 2024
  • University of Hull, where she submitted a thesis in 1976 on "Women munition workers during the First World War with special reference to engineering"....
    10 KB (964 words) - 03:54, 17 October 2024
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    townships to house the workers at Gretna and Eastriggs. To prevent problems with the influx of construction and munition workers, authorities implemented...
    24 KB (2,656 words) - 18:12, 20 November 2024
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    reported that "White phosphorus proved to be an effective and versatile munition and a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines...
    61 KB (6,151 words) - 08:48, 6 November 2024
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    Mini Akıllı Mühimmat (MAM), meaning "smart micro munition" is a family of laser-guided and/or GPS/INS guided bombs produced by Turkish defence industry...
    11 KB (600 words) - 09:11, 15 August 2024
  • late German New Guinea (1919–1920) to inquire into complaints by the munition worker passengers to Australia by the transport "Bahia Castillo" (1919) on...
    19 KB (1,936 words) - 11:19, 15 July 2024
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    Retrieved 21 May 2023 – via National Library of Australia. "Letter from a Munition Worker". The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate. New South Wales, Australia...
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    that 36% of its workers had previously been in domestic service. The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory...
    20 KB (2,443 words) - 12:16, 25 August 2024
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    turn a bright yellow-orange color. During the First World War, female munition workers who handled the chemical found that their skin turned bright yellow...
    38 KB (4,089 words) - 17:19, 17 November 2024
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    late German New Guinea (1919–1920) to inquire into complaints by the munition worker passengers to Australia by the transport "Bahia Castillo" (1919) on...
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    The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War One. Women came from all over the United Kingdom...
    5 KB (559 words) - 21:49, 19 October 2023
  • Playhouse in Leeds staged Nutter's play the Barnbow Canaries about women munition workers in Barnbow, Leeds, during the First World War. The factory the women...
    10 KB (812 words) - 04:56, 14 November 2024
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    landing craft; however Slazengers also built military huts, houses for munition workers, military canteens, hospitals, small arms, ammunition boxes and gas...
    9 KB (977 words) - 06:28, 3 February 2024
  • their army by conscripting workers who were already against the war. At the beginning of 1918 almost 1,000,000 munition workers struck; one demand was peace...
    4 KB (489 words) - 20:50, 22 October 2024
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    Ammunition (redirect from Munition)
    from the French la munition, for the material used for war. Ammunition and munition are often used interchangeably, although munition now usually refers...
    21 KB (2,662 words) - 01:58, 14 November 2024
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    convulsions (seizures) in military field personnel ingesting it, and in munition workers inhaling its dust during manufacture. At least one fatality was attributed...
    59 KB (6,170 words) - 14:10, 7 November 2024
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    in the early 1960s. Arsenal Football Club was founded in 1886 as a munition workers' team from Woolwich, then in Kent. They turned professional in 1891...
    49 KB (5,623 words) - 03:30, 28 July 2024
  • GmbH and Pyrotechnik Silberhütte GmbH to form the new Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH. Rheinmetall cooperated with Rafael Ltd. and Diehl Munitionssysteme...
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