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Tribute to WWII munitions workers (Wales)

A plaque has been unveiled to workers who were killed or maimed at a wartime munitions factory in south Wales.

At its height in World War II, 32,000 people, three-quarters of them women, worked with high explosives and detonators at Bridgend, with 27 killed.

A ceremony in Bridgend commemorated the tens of thousands of the people from south Wales who worked in the arsenal, and the plaque lists the 27 killed. It was on a huge complex where the headquarters of South Wales Police now stand.

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