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The First World War
From
Chapter 17 Women at War
By
the time the war ended, sixty per cent of all workers engaged
in manufacturing munitions were women, happy to work for
just over two pounds a week which in those days was a very
good wage. You can see women at work in an ordnance factory
in the photograph at the top of this page.
Women did all sorts of other jobs too. They drove tramcars,
acted as conductors on buses, volunteered as policewomen
and even did heavy work of the sort usually tackled only
by men. For example women worked in the Clyde shipyards,
as vehicle builders in the motor industry, and some even
went round the streets delivering coal.
Some
Exercise Questions from Chapter 13 The War at Sea
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4.
Write one or two sentences about mines and draw the
diagram on the right
5.
Mines were swept by using a device called a paravane
which cut the cables anchoring them to the seabed.
See if you can find some information about paravanes
and draw one in your book. Add one or two sentences
to explain how a paravane works.
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From
Chapter 16 The Home Front
For
almost the first time in history, civilians in Britain could
be killed or wounded by bombs.
From
Chapter 6 In the Trenches
Everything
had to be brought up at night along the zigzagging communications
trenches which connected the rear areas with the front line,
and it was almost impossible to supply the forward troops
with hot food. As a result, they grew accustomed to living
on a diet of tinned "bully-beef", pork and beans,
bread spread with margarine and"Tommy Tickler's"
jam, and tea made with condensed milk.
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