Joseph Maxwell

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Blower

Place of Residence at HM Factory Gretna C4 Hostel

Biography

Info from relative of fellow worker, August 2021:I am attaching the two photos. On the back of one are written the names of the people in the picture. They are as follows:-

Dumfries and Annan

April 1918

Wilfred Edmondson gravitier

(‘My wife’s husband’)

W Falcolner foreman

Tom Harris dips

W D Macrae blower

W Gaunt foreman

C Franks chargehand

Reginald Keen (farmer) fireman

J Simmons shift chemist

J Scully charger

J Maxwell blower

Photographer Frank Holbrook, Alexander’s Studio, Dumfires and Annan

While we were at the museum we were able to look through the 1818-1819 Electoral Rolls. We did not find Wilfred but found the following who may have been some of the people named on the back of the photo:-

William Falconer munitions worker F2, Eastriggs

Walter Gaunt munitions worker Newfoundland House, Eastriggs

Joseph Maxwell munitions worker C4 Hostel, Eastriggs

William Daniel Macrae munitions worker Newfoundland House, Eastriggs