WW1 Canary Babies

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The war children who were born YELLOW: How women working in explosives factories sparked a clutch of 'Canary Babies' in WWI

• Gladys Sangster was dyed from the chemicals handled by her mother Mary
• She believes many mothers in munitions factories were the same
• Now 97, she said it was seen as normal: 'You were tougher in those days!'
• Mrs Sangster, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, is one of the last to survive

By Dan Bloom





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