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Lumberjills
When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber – but only had seven months of it stockpiled. Timber was critical to the war effort: it was needed for...
Looking for information on Kitty Bland, Buckinghamshire Land Girl
My mother was based in Buckinghamshire, I believe at Finmere or Tingewick. She met my father there when he was stationed in the army at Tingewick in 1946. Her name was Kitty Bland and...
Searching for Marietta, Land Girl in Skipton, Yorkshire
Ermanno is looking for information on Marietta, most likely a Land Girl in Skipton who knew his grandfather, Italian Prisoner of War, Congedo Cesare Antonio during the Second World War. Marietta might have been...
We Will Remember Them
We salute those who died to give us our freedom. We will remember them. Non-combatants by Evelyn Underhill Never of us be said We had no war to wage, Because our womanhood Because the...