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Women’s Land Army Recruitment 1946
Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London © Sue Lowry & Magellan PR
January 1, 1970
During both world wars women were encouraged to join the Women’s Land Army to make up for the shortage in farm labour. The ‘Land Girls,’ as they came to be known, undertook strenuous physical labour and were a key part of the war effort; in 1943 there were over 80,000 Land Girls.
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