Journal - Victorian Historical Journal Volume 90 Number 1 June 2019, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, June 2019

Physical description

Paperback book with glossy front cover

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Victorian Historical Journal
Volume 90 Number 1 June 2019
Royal Historical Society Of Victoria

Summary

Article Page 134: The Forgotten Girls of World War 1 by Judy Maddigan

This article arose from an exhibition "The Forgotten Girls of World War One" mounted by Melbourne's living Museum of the West in 2018.

Little has been written about the 700 or so wartime women munitions workers based at the Colonial Ammunition Company. These "girls" made all the .303 bullets for the Australian Army in the Great War, but recently remained hidden from history.

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