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Members of the British Women's Land Army harvesting beetroot (1942/43) Women's Land Army Badge The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military.
The Woman's Land Army of America (WLAA), later the Woman's Land Army (WLA), was a civilian organization created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLAA were sometimes known as farmerettes. [1] The WLAA was modeled on the British Women's Land Army. [2]
A painting titled Smoko time with the AWLA A papier-mache cow, used for milking demonstrations, is being tied to the car by a Field Officer in the Women's Land Army, Melbourne, 1944. The Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA) was an organisation created in World War II in Australia to combat rising labour shortages in the farming sector. The AWLA ...
The New Zealand Women's Land Army or Women's Land Corps [1] was formed to supply New Zealand's agriculture during the Second World War, with a function similar to its British namesake. The organisation in New Zealand began in an ad hoc manner with volunteer groups set up in various regions as it became apparent that there was an acute labour ...
Amelia King (25 June 1917–1995) was a British woman who was refused entry into the Women's Land Army, during World War II, because she was black. This example of racial segregation in the UK was debated in the House of Commons and was covered in newspapers internationally including The Chicago Defender. The decision would eventually be reversed.
The Women's Land Army. London: Michael Joseph. Twinch, Carol (1990). Women on the Land: Their story during two world wars. Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press. p. 162. ISBN 0-7188-2814-3. Tyrer, Nicola (1996). They Fought in the Fields. The Women's Land Army: The Story of a Forgotten Victory. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. p. 243. ISBN 1-85619-554-6
The WAAC did not have official military status, so it was converted to the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) after Roosevelt signed a law on July 1, 1943. The War Department stated it would admit 10 ...
Florence Louise Hall was the chief of the Women's Land Army from April 12, 1943 until the end of World War II. During her term, at least one and a half million non-farm women joined the farm effort to help alleviate the wartime farm labor shortage. [1] Florence Hall was born in 1888 in Port Austin, Michigan.