Uncovering the Legacy: Tracing Women Ancestors during World War I

Women working in ordnance plants during World War I: spanner slotting fuse on head ends of fuse bodies at Gray & Davis Co. in Cambridge Massachusetts between 1914 and 1918 (photograph provided from Library of Congress). A service member from Pennsylvania would later become Chief Yeoman of the US Navy; another British serviceman served in similar capacity during their service during this conflict.

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