I WRITE in response to Mr Brown's letter ("Heroines puzzle", July 7). The three women mentioned on the memorial were killed along with other women from York, one aged 14 years and ten months, on the night of December 5, 1916 after an explosion at number one National Filling Factory at Barnbow.

There were 35 munition workers killed in two more explosions 1917 and 1918 with more casualties.

Have any of your readers photos, or postcards etc of any men or women from York who made the ultimate sacrifice in the First World War?

I should be grateful for any information.

A J Bedingham,

98 North Spa, Bridlington.

...IN reply to C Brown's inquiry about the names of three women on the War Memorial on Salisbury Road. One of the women in question, Mary C Carter, was my late father's mother (my grandmother).

I do not have much information about her only that she worked in munitions during the war and I think she died in an explosion.

If any information comes to light I should be very pleased to hear about it.

Jean Skelton,

31 Brentwood Crescent,

York,

YO10 5HU.

Updated: 12:16 Wednesday, July 14, 2004