Watching The changing role of women, made me realise just how dangerous and life-threatening working in a munitions factory could be, and how they were willing to put their life on the line to help ensure the safe return of their loved ones and win of the war. Women were forced to take on the many different job roles men had, when they left to go to the war. One of the was popular jobs for women was shell making in a munitions factory with around 1 million women working in one. Work included such things as making shells, bullets and guns and each task left room for injuries both large and small.
The munitions factories were a very dangerous place, one, The Woolwich Arsenal had the inside described as ' then the evil smell become more noticeable', the impending doom that loomed over these factories was unshakeable. The smaller injuries caused in a munitions factory would be cuts on fingers or grit in the eye but one of the most deadly were caused by the TNT in the shells.
Women who would be handling the TNT poison or were anywhere near the shells would inhale the fumes and begin a slow death, starting with a cold like symptom and ending with a painful death.
Watching this video made me realise just how much these women were willing to go through to help out the men and their country. Death did not shake these strong willed women who not only did incredibly hard work but also risked their lives whilst doing so. I now have a better understanding of these women and what their roles were, I feel like my woman character needs to have alot more determination and pace in her work, also the thought process of why she is doing the job and how she feels about the possibilities of not only her husband dying but herself dying also.
'well we don't mind dying for our country'
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