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The Great War Centenary - 1917

From Front Line to White Lund

Further Honours made in 1918 relating to Munition Works in Lancaster

Empire Order Honours

January 1918

Amongst the local recipients of the Empire Order Honours this week are the following:-

Commander – William Joseph Fitzherbert-Brockholes, DL, JP, Chairman, Lancashire War Agricultural Committee.

Members of the Order – Miss Helen Maud Bax-Ironside, Munition Workers’ Welfare Committee (YWCA) Organiser in Lancaster; Miss Florence MacDonald, Superintendent of Women Munition Workers’ Club, Lancaster; Richard Albert Stokes, Ministry of Munitions; Mary A Wilkinson*, telephonist at White Lund, now Mrs Cook of 11 Cavendish Street, Lancaster.

Miss Helen Maud Bax-Ironside was an early pioneer in the field for advancing the welfare of women workers in the Lancaster district, and showed a commanding genius for organisation, and capacity for getting things when most required. A large experience of social work among girls enabled her to realise the most fitting provision, and a whole network of agencies, hostels, and social institutions for their benefit are the outcome of her activities.

Miss Florence MacDonald, superintendent of the Women Workers Club, China Street, is a daughter of Rev F W MacDonald, ex-President of the Wesleyan Conference; a niece of Sir Edward Burne Jones, the famous painter; and also of Sir Edward Poynter, President of the Royal Academy. She previously worked in a department of the War Office, and has had three years experience of social and religious work in the East end of London.

* Mary Wilkinson's awarded was actually the Medal of the Order of the British Empire, so it would appear that the original report of her award was incorrect, as she did not receive the award of Member of the British Empire (MBE).
 

 

 

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