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Devon

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

Lumber Jills

Florence Ada Lowers (née Beacroft)

The Women's Land Army and Me

WW2 Land Girls

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.

Research (WW1)

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)

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

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

Articles (WW1)

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

Betty Bond, nee Hewitt, in her uniform taken in about 1942 when she was 20 Source: Helen Van Dongen

Photos (WW2) / WW2 Land Girl Profiles / WW2 Land Girls

Betty Bond (née Hewitt)

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