Article: At last, Joyce lands her medal; WAR: Decades on, Land Army girl is honoured for doing her bit.(News)

Article: On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in ...
Business History Review;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... The Women's Land Army in World War II. By Stephanie ... her study of the Land Army bolsters Chafe ... characterization of World War II as a "watershed ... agricultural labor during World War II. Stephanie ... the Women's Land Army on the historical ...

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 ... throughout the Second World War are to be recognised ... up by fellow former Land Army girl, Margaret Branch ... member of the Women's Land Army during the Second World War who would like to receive ...

Article: Former land girls receive war medals ; Two sisters have received ...
Plymouth Evening Herald, The;  August 4, 2008 ;     654 words ... ... their service to the Women's Land Army during the Second World War. Dolores Finch, now living ... country who joined the Women's Land Army to work in agriculture. Now ... Plymouth and joined the Women's Land Army following in the footsteps ...

Article: Thelma recognised for her war efforts ; Thelma Middlehurst has ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  August 20, 2008 ;     376 words ... ... Government in recognition of her hard work as a Land Army girl during the Second World War. Thelma received the items, signed by Prime ... Merseyside, at the outbreak of the war and joined the Land Army at 18 in 1942. She loved the countryside and ...

Article: Not for them battle fatigues: the Australian women's land ...
Journal of Australian Studies;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... charge in uniform, was vigorously opposed.(2) The second world war, when both the allies and the axis needed to mobilise all ... taken precedence over service to her country. In the second world war, Australian women did serve in the deserts of the Middle East ...

Article: Being a midlands land girl among a crowd of east enders made me ...
Derby Evening Telegraph;  September 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Becoming a Land Army girl as a teenager during the Second World War was something of a shock for ... September 15). I was also in the Land Army during the war. At first ... so, at the age of 20, my Land Army days were over. It wasn ...

Article: Louise fights for army girls recognition ; A paignton mum has ...
Herald Express (Torquay UK);  January 21, 2008 ;     624 words ... ... battle to honour the Land Army girls who struggled ... throughout the Second World War. The Government ... of the Women's Land Army who volunteered ... Steve are Second World War re-enactment enthusiasts ... received from former Land Army women when she dressed ...