‘At headquarters she was a number’, at the local level… ‘she becomes an individual’. ‘She is no longer W.L.A. No. 657085, she is Betty or Madge’. Vita Sackville-West, ‘Women’s Land Army’, p.15. The transformation...
The Office of Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Kent Drumhead Service, Sunday 23 September, 3.00pm, Kent County Cricket Ground (Spitfire Ground), St Lawrence in Canterbury. From 2014 to 2018, nations, communities and individuals of all...
Many thanks to Pamela Bleazard for sending her mother-in-law’s memories of her time in the Women’s Land Army. At the age of 17 I was driving around the villages of Kent in my own...
From left to right, top to bottom: Land Girl, Miss Winnie Kent, pictured collecting apples. Source: IWM D 10761 Spraying apple orchards at Cockayne Hatley. Source: Stuart Antrobus Land owner Mr. Whitehead shows a...
The Rev’d Martin Flowerdew I recently found the membership card for Miss M.L.McClary No. 38292 in a secondhand book I purchased. It would be good to reunite it with her [outside chance I admit]...