WORKERS WITHOUT LEGS
EMPLOYMENT IN WELSH MUNITIONS FACTORY (8.0. W.) RUGBY, January 12. Ten men working together in a munitions factory in Wales have only 16 legs among them, and five of those are damaged. One of the 10 has lost an arm, and two more are veterans of the last war. In this factory the many thousands of workers wear special shoes at work, shoes in which no metal may be used. The repair' of these takes 10 men in the cobblers’ shop nearly all their time. The •‘father" of the shop is John Evans, aged 60, who lost a leg at the Somme in 1918. John Sargeant, aged 51, lost his left leg at Mons. . Mining and other industrial accidents caused the other limb shortages.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23536, 14 January 1942, Page 6
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