Devon

Lumber Jills / Women's Timber Corps

Sheila MacDonald Nicholls (née Mackintosh)

Dorothy Hughes née Holt

WW1 Land Girl Profiles / WW1 Land Girls

Dorothy Louisa Hughes (née Holt)

Women's Timber Corps Badge to be worn on beret. Photo of badge from Catherine Procter's WLA Collection.

Florence Ada Lowers (née Beacroft)

The Women's Land Army and Me

Marjorie Dean remembers VE Day

Land girls staying at St Elmo's WLA Rest House, Torquay, go swimming during their paid holiday. Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum.

Running the WLA

Running the WLA: Rest Break Houses

April 1945 edition, drawn by Devonshire Land Girl P Newton (WLA number, 104644)

The Land Girl Illustrations

‘The Land Girl’ Covers: April

Photo from the Illustrated War News, 08th Aug 1917.

Women’s Forestry Corps, North Devon, WW1

Land Girls and Lumber Jills Reading

Land Girls and Lumber Jills at Play

November: Land Girls and Lumber Jills Reading

Photos from the Daily Mirror, Friday 16 August 1918

Latest News / Research (WW1) / Research Blog

International Women’s Day: WW1 WLA Inspector Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn

Milking and dairying - ideal work for a land girl (WW1) Source: IWM Q30681

WW1 Article: Sowing The Seeds of Patriotism? The Women’s Land Army in Devon 1916-1918