Florence Attridge

Women working at Marconi in the 1950s (Chelmsford Museum)
Women working at the Marconi Hall Street Works c. 1900s (Chelmsford Museum)
Front of Attridge's British Empire Medal (Chelmsford Museum)
Back of Florence Attridge's British Empire Medal (Chelmsford Museum)
The British Type 3 Mark II Radio (Chelmsford Museum)

Florence Emily Attridge BEM (1901 – 1975) worked at the Marconi wireless factory in Chelmsford, Essex, and received a British Empire Medal (civil division) for her contributions to the war effort during the Second World War. Joining the factory after the First World War, by 1944 she was managing a team of women in the coil winding shop. Papers accompanying her medal suggest that she was involved in making secret radio sets used by the resistance during the war.[1]

  1. ^ Wander, Tim (2012). Marconi's New Street Works 1912 – 2012 Birthplace of the Wireless Age. ISBN 9780-755-206933.