Belgian Munition Works, Clevedon Road, Barnes, Richmond, London, September 1918. Artist: Adolph Augustus Boucher.

Belgian Munition Works, Clevedon Road, Barnes, Richmond, London, September 1918. Artist: Adolph Augustus Boucher.

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Belgian Munition Works, Clevedon Road, Barnes, Richmond, London, September 1918. Belgian workers finishing their shift posed outside the factory, also known as the Pelabon Works. During the First World War Belgian engineer Charles Pelabon established a munitions factory in Clevedon Road employing Belgian refugees to manufacture hand grenades and artillery shells.

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