Dangerous Work

Auteur

George Weeks worked on the Millwall docks for 44 years after World War I. He died peacefully in 1982. His son Alan Weeks taught history at St. Mary's College, University of London and is the author of "Tea, Rum and Fags" and "A Bloody Picnic." He has annotated the memoir throughout.

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British military labour during the First World War developed from an ad hoc arrangement in 1914 into a corps some 400,000 strong, supported by as many as a million dominion and foreign workers by 1918.