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Poster for the Women’s Land Army - usually referred to as ‘Land Girls’
The Land Girls when known by their official name were called the WLA (Women’s Land Army) but they are rarely known by that name. Most people remember them as 'Land Girls’ - fresh-faced, hard working women who served their country in agriculture in both World War I and World War 2.
The British government knew that their involvement in World War 2 was inevitable and faced with the possibility of being isolated, they knew that Britain would need to produce more of its own food.
That and the need to send men working on farms off to serve their country in the military led to the reformation of the Women’s Land Army, thereafter usually called The Land Girls in June 1939.
Lady Denham became the honorary head of the Land Girls but it was probably the one organisation which needed little in the way of organisation, having already worked so well in World War One.
It needs to be acknowledged that many of those who served in the Land Girls were already farm girls or already lived out in the countryside. Only about one third of its membership came from the cities, but they were a significant number.
Ther job of the land girls was to slot into the jobs traditionally done by men on the farms.
The Women’s Land Army also had successful counterparts in the USA and Australia. They were also lovingly called Land Girls there as well.
Feeding the troops and keeping Britain supplied with enough food became a difficult task simply because enemy forces were blocking shipping routes, farms around the country were producing more food than ever before and workers were needed to help plant harvest and look after livestock, again women were depended upon to fill these roles and the Women’s land army was born out of this necessity for farm workers.
farm working was long and hard the women worked 12 hours a day no matter what the weather, in muddy fields but they most of the time kept their spirits up knowing that they were doing it for their country and for the men who were fighting for freedom.
NICE EQUIPMENT – GARDEN VARIETY
SACRAMENTO CALIF: Striking a “Hi-Ho” pose for the cameraman is pretty Mickey Codmoriz who is shown astride a one-man tractor for use in gardens and smallcrop plants. The new agricultural equipment is one of several pieces displayed as post-war developpment the california state fair.
8/12/47
ZB-Schutt-31.8.1958 Getreidesoll erfüllt.
Trotz der üngünstigen Witterung hat die LPG “Einigkeit” in Eichow, Kreis
Cottbus-Land, ihr Getridesoll bereits übererfüllt und ist darüber
hinaus dabei, ca. 175 ha Getreide dem freien Aufkauf zur Verfügung zu
stellen. Der ha-Ertrag lag bei 20, 5 dz. UBz: An diesem Erfolg hat auch
Elisabeth Schulze von der Feldbaubrigade durch ihren Fleiß keinen
geringen Anteil. Hier beim Dreschen.