Article: Land Army united in medal fight; Women battling to honour the dead.(News)(Obituary)

Article: Former land army girls to get civic ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  September 30, 2008 ;     438 words ...Former Land Army girls will be recognised for their work during ... will present certificates to 56 ex-Land Army members from all over Devon at the event ... to properly recognise the work of the Land Army during the war. With the country at ...

Article: Louise fights for army girls recognition ; A ...
Herald Express (Torquay UK);  January 21, 2008 ;     624 words ... ... her own battle to honour the Land Army girls who struggled to feed Britain ... collecting the names of as many former Land Army girls as she can and sending them up ... names and addresses of former Land Army girls - most of them women she has ...

Article: Ceremony celebrates war effort of land army ...
Grimsby Telegraph;  February 11, 2009 ;     408 words ... ... celebrate the efforts of Lincolnshire Land Army girls. Martha Stephens (84), of Grimsby ... for local women who served in the Land Army. Mrs Stephens, a widow who has ... was somebody speaking about the Land Army and what we had to do and I met ...

Article: Cheer on Land Army girls - plea.
Bury Free Press (Bury St. Edmunds, England);  April 25, 2008 ;     380 words ... ... urged to take to the streets on Sunday to cheer on Land Army girls as they parade through the town. A special reception to celebrate the work of the Land Army girls during World War Two will be hosted by St Edmundsbury ...

Article: Government gaffe is mayor's cue to invite the land girls for tea ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  August 28, 2008 ;     637 words ...Exeter Land Army girls who helped to feed Britain throughout ... Guildhall tea and will be presenting each Land Army guest with a certificate - that has ... there. Of course, a lot of the former Land Army girls will be in their 80s now so we don ...

Article: Women remember 'war' in the fields; NOSTALGIA: Proud former ...
Birmingham Mail (England);  March 14, 2009 ;     699 words ...Byline: By Jane Tyler LAND Army girls caught up on 60 years' worth ... local members of the Women's Land Army and Women's Timber Corps. The ... she said. CAPTION(S): Land Army girls doing their bit out in the country ...

Article: Should ex-Land Army girls be getting medals?
The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 5, 2008 ;     566 words ... ... suggest that the former Women's Land Army girlsshouldn't receive a medal ... will be the last we hear of the Land Army girls when they receivetheir award ... sgeneration who joined the Women's Land Army to release the men of my father ...