#munitions-factory — Public Fediverse posts

2. The story of a distressing accident at Skinningrove Ironworks by which a young Staithes woman was decapitated, was told at an inquest at Bretton on Saturday, on Maud Armstrong, seventeen, a labourer engaged to assist the fitters. A verdict of Accidentally killed whilst following her employment was returned. She was wearing a Staithes fisher bonnet at the time.... Mr E Bury, works manager, stated they could not account for the girl having been run over. He thought that the bonnet she was wearing would have something to do with her not seeing the approach of the engine and truck. #forgottenwomen #munitionsfactory

1. Series of women who died in munition factories but no recognised:
There are a number of communities on Lives of the First world War that include female munition workers. Who died due to their war work. It is difficult to identify where munitions people worked due to the secrecy at the time about their activities. This is about women who died in explosions, fires, and other industrial accidents in munition factories but not remembered in any other factory-based community.
Maud Armstrong was born in 1900, Leeds, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of George Armstrong and Maud Storey.
In 1911 Maud aged 11 lived with her family at 8 n 1917 she worked at the Labourer Ministry of Munitions, Skinningrove Ironworks.
On 1st June 1917 Maud was accidently killed whilst following her employment aged 17. Skinningrove Ironworks, Skinningrove, Yorkshire United Kingdom. Church Street, Staithes, Yorkshire. #forgottenwomen #munitionsfactory