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WWI Centenary | Britain’s Home Front Heroes - Carol’s Story | Ancestry

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Channel: Ancestry · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Millions of people served on the home front during WWI. One such hero was Carol's grandmother, Irma Schoepen, who worked as a munitionette in Letchworth. Over the course of the Great War, Irma worked in the munition factory with many other women where she not only played an important role supporting the war effort but went on to meet her husband, Georges. We teamed up with Natasha Kaplinsky to take Carol on a tour of Letchworth to the see the personal landmarks that shaped Irma's life, and Carol's family history. 

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