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Ballito War Work Badge

Enamel badge reading 'Ballito on War Work'

Ballito Enamel War Work Badge

Badges like this one were owned by many St. Albans women during the Second World War. Before the War the Ballito Hosiery Mills made silk stockings. When war broke out it switched over to producing Oerlikon ammunition shells. The majority of people who worked there at this time were women doing their bit for the War Effort.