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They Fought in the Fields by Nicola Tyrer - 1996: The Women's Land Army The Story of a Forgotton Victory
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They came from the cities: mill girls, machinists, shop assistants, typists, barmaids, milliners and manicurists - and when it came to country life they were as green as the grass they found there.
Their heroic mission to feed a nation whose menfolk were away fighting for freedom on land, sea and air. Initially their efforts were met with scorn by a community famed for its conservatism; they were teased and humiliated, locked in with dangerous bulls, subjected to endless sexual innuendo. But before long the farmers were having to eat their words and acknowledge that the Women's Land Army was a rip-roaring success.
By the spring of 1940, two million new acres had been broken to the plough. Not content with feeding hens and milking cows, women became ace mechanics; a thousand land girls volunteered as rat catchers; others drove giant excavators in vital land reclamation schemes, felled trees for pit props, ran mobile threshing gangs, and mastered the ancient art of thatching.
For many, what began as duty ended as a labour of love. Five thousand women stayed behind to work on the land after the WLA was disbanded in 1950.
Unforgivably, the contribution made by these young women to the successful outcome of the war has never been adequately acknowledged - it was largely due to their efforts that bread had not been rationed. Churchill himself vetoed including the Land Army in the generous demobilisation grants available to other women's services, while thirty years after the war the WLA was refused permission to march in the Remembrance Day procession.
The full story of the achievements of the Land Army of eighty thousand women has never been told. This book, which draws closely on the memories of many of them, is an attempt to change that.
They came from the cities: mill girls, machinists, shop assistants, typists, barmaids, milliners and manicurists - and when it came to country life they were as green as the grass they found there.
Their heroic mission to feed a nation whose menfolk were away fighting for freedom on land, sea and air. Initially their efforts were met with scorn by a community famed for its conservatism; they were teased and humiliated, locked in with dangerous bulls, subjected to endless sexual innuendo. But before long the farmers were having to eat their words and acknowledge that the Women's Land Army was a rip-roaring success.
By the spring of 1940, two million new acres had been broken to the plough. Not content with feeding hens and milking cows, women became ace mechanics; a thousand land girls volunteered as rat catchers; others drove giant excavators in vital land reclamation schemes, felled trees for pit props, ran mobile threshing gangs, and mastered the ancient art of thatching.
For many, what began as duty ended as a labour of love. Five thousand women stayed behind to work on the land after the WLA was disbanded in 1950.
Unforgivably, the contribution made by these young women to the successful outcome of the war has never been adequately acknowledged - it was largely due to their efforts that bread had not been rationed. Churchill himself vetoed including the Land Army in the generous demobilisation grants available to other women's services, while thirty years after the war the WLA was refused permission to march in the Remembrance Day procession.
The full story of the achievements of the Land Army of eighty thousand women has never been told. This book, which draws closely on the memories of many of them, is an attempt to change that.
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- Publisher Sinclair-Stevenson
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- Date Published 1996
- Keywords nicola tyrer, fought, fields, women, land, army, forgotten, victory, war, historical, biography, genealogy, love, contribution, churchill, WLA, memories,
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