Mrs. William Wood manages a 120 acre farm in Colona, Michigan, with little male assistance. | Ann Rosener Photography
Women’s Land Army tractor mechanics training at Wye Collge, Kent | Museum of English Rural Life
The cover of Picture Post magazine featuring a British member of the
Women’s Land Army working on a farm in the early months of World War II,
December 1939. Original Publication: Picture Post - Cover - pub. 9th
December 1939. | Photo by IPC Magazines/Hayward Magee/Picture Post/Getty
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BATTLE OF THE LAND: THE WORK OF THE WOMEN’S LAND ARMY ON THE BRITISH HOME FRONT, 1942
24 year old Anne Keys reverses a tractor out of a shed during her
training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture. She is checking
over her shoulder to make sure that all is well as she parks. Before
the war, Anne was assistant forewoman in a boot and shoe factory.
Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans Picture No 10583045
Women’s Land Army in action, 1939
Land Girls following a tractor drawn potato digger, gathering produce before it can be affected by frost.
Mary Evans/Robert Hunt Collection Picture No 10282884
Land Girls WWII
Land Girl, Lin Gapp, a former secretary in a cosmetics laboratory, is
protected by a ground sheet from rain as she drives a tractor on a farm
during World War II
Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans Picture No 10645141
Land girls in training 1939
Ploughing practice, her first solo trip on a tractor, determined to make
her first furrow straight. If she can already drive a car she would
not find it difficult to , but starting the engine is another matter.