World War One At Home - South

Listen to the stories in full from 24 February on your local BBC radio station or by visiting www.bbc.co.uk/ww1.

Grimsbury, Oxfordshire: Canary Babies. The children of women munitions workers that were born yellow. Image courtesy of Imperial War Museums

Reading, Berkshire: Skilled Surgeon Discovers Bacteria to Aid Healing of Battlefield Wounds. Reading surgeon, Leonard Joyce, pioneered a new way of healing wounds when he discovered the Reading Bacillus. Image courtesy of Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre