Laura Annie Willson
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Laura Annie Willson MBE was an English engineer and suffragette, who was twice imprisoned for her political activities. She was one of the founding members of the Women's Engineering Society and was t
Willson c.1925
Advert for Laura Annie Willson houses in Jumples
Margaret, Lady Moir
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Margaret, Lady Moir, OBE was a Scottish lathe operator, engineer, a workers' relief organiser, an employment campaigner, and a founder member of the Women's Engineering Society. She went on to become
Laura Annie Willson
…awarded an MBE for her contribution to 'Women's Work in Munitions'. In 1919, she co-founded the Women's Engineering Society (WES) with Rachel Parsons, Margaret, Lady Moir, Lady Katharine Parsons, Eleanor Shelley-Rolls, Margaret Rowbotham and Janetta Mary Ornsby. The aim of WES was to protect the positions that women had…
Margaret Moir c.1900
The spectacular memorial to the Moir family in Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking, Surrey, UK.