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A labour of love: Mary Chomley

Mary Chomley’s story of women’s unpaid labour during the Great War.

Watch the story of Mary Chomley, a woman moved by the plight of prisoners and how she worked to help them.

Note: This story is a silent presentation. Minor modifications have been made to sentence structure for the purpose of digital display.


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