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Buchanan, Bessie N
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Bessie Netta Buchanan (born 06/05/1891) attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1917 and 1918. She studied Evening Classes in Design, and also attended Saturday Afternoon Classes. Bessie worked as a Munitions Factory Examiner, probably meaning that she worked as a welfare supervisor or a factory inspector in one of the factories producing Munitions for the War Effort. These factories were staffed mostly by women, and to work in one was a common Home Front occupation. It is not known which factory Bessie worked in. However, there were a number of large Munitions Factories in Glasgow and Clydebank. Bessie was born in Kippen in Stirlingshire to James and Isabella. She had four siblings; one older, Jeanie, and three younger, William, Janet and James. Her address in Glasgow was in Berkeley Street in the Woodlands area.
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Sources: Ancestry.co.uk, "The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War", Trevor Royle (Birlinn Ltd: Edinburgh, 2006), firstworldwarglasgow.co.uk, http://www.sath.org.uk, "On her their lives depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War", Angela Woollacott, (University of California Press: London, 1994)
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