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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.
Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War. ISBN 978-1-59797-273-4. (excerpts in Smithsonian; NPR interview.) Stephanie A. Carpenter (2003). On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II. ISBN 978-0-87580-314-2. "Agriculture" in The Great Plains During World War II, ed. by R. Douglas Hurt. The Plains ...
People who were members of the British Women's Land Army (World War II) (also known as Land Girls) Pages in category "Women's Land Army members of World War II" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
[28] [29] Farmers increased the number of acres under cultivation from 12,000,000 to 18,000,000 (from about 50,000 to 75,000 km 2), and the farm labour force was expanded by a fifth, thanks especially to the Women's Land Army. [30] Farm women had expanded duties, with the young men absent at war. They were helped by prisoners of war from Italy ...
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.
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.
Soldiers of the 6888th Central Postal Battalion, the first black women's unit deployed overseas during World War II, pass in review during a 1945 military parade in Birmingham, England.
The Land Girls: In a Man's World, 1939–1946. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press. ISBN 9781877133947. Montgomerie, Deborah (1989). "Men's Jobs and Women's Work: The New Zealand Women's Land Army in World War II". Agricultural History. 63 (3): 1–14. Montgomerie, Deborah (2001). The Women's War: New Zealand Women 1939–45 ...