The Farmer’s Idea of a Land Girl
Source: Catherine Procter Collection ‘The Land Girl’s idea of the farmer’, published in Punch on 13th March 1940.
Category: WW2 Other Documents
Cornwall Women’s Land Army Newsletters
If anyone has other copies of the newsletter which they’d be willing to share online, please get in touch. October 1942 March 1943
Dress your own Land Army Doll knitting pattern
Click on the images to make them larger. Source: Yours Express Yourself
World Wide Knit in Public Day: WLA Pull-over and Stockings Knitting Patterns
Source: Catherine Procter WLA Collection See last year’s knitting pattern for gumboots stockings and mittens here.
WW2 Book: ‘Life in the Land Army’ by C.Falcon
To read the full book, please click here. Source: Catherine Procter WLA Collection
Laurie Lee description of the WLA
“This young, sun-tanned, green-sweatered, cord-breeched army of one-time shop girls, typists, mannequins, mill girls, hairdressers, parlourmaids, was throughout the war in the forefront of the battle. They figured in every ordeal and triumph wartime...