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The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War One. Women came from all over the United Kingdom to work at the factory, but many were drawn from the surrounding areas of Scotland and Northern England .
The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women war workers at HM Factory Gretna. [ 35 ] Thomas Gilbert Henry Jones was an Australian organic chemist who became a senior chemist in the solvent recovery process.
The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War One. One of these workers was Maud Bruce. She arrived at H.M. Factory Gretna in late 1916 to work as a forewoman of the cotton drying house in the Dornock section. Maud was billeted at Grenville Hostel, Eastriggs. [5]
HM Factory, Gretna was the United Kingdom's largest cordite factory in World War I. Women from all over the world came to work there, manufacturing what was known as the Devil's Porridge, a term coined by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to refer to the mixture of gun cotton and nitroglycerine that was used to produce cordite as a shell propellant. [38]
Euphemia Cunningham was born in Edinburgh in 1892, and had four brothers. Her father was a Gordon Highlander. [2] She worked in a printing factory in Edinburgh, but in October 1915, as three of her brothers had died in World War I, she chose [1] to join the 11,000 women involved in secret war work at the munitions factory in Gretna. [3]
The national munitions factory in Gretna, which was the largest industrial site in the world at the time, [3] recorded that 36% of its workers had previously been in domestic service. [1] The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War One.
Gretna means "(place at the) gravelly hill", from Old English greot "grit" (in the dative form greoten (which is where the -n comes from) and hoh "hill-spur".. The Lochmaben Stone is a megalith standing in a field, nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the Sark mouth on the Solway Firth, three hundred yards or so above high water mark on the farm of Old Graitney.
Gretna F.C., a now defunct Scottish football club Gretna F.C. 2008 , a Scottish football club founded by the fans of the above Gretna (skipper) , a genus of butterflies in the grass skipper family