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A member of the Women's Land Army is trained in the use of a tractor plough at the WLA training centre at Cannington, Somerset, c 1940. A farmer and two horses can just be seen in the background. Source: IWM D 119

A member of the Women’s Land Army is trained in the use of a tractor plough at the WLA training centre at Cannington, Somerset, c 1940. A farmer and two horses can just be seen in the background.
Source: IWM D 119

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