Women forestry experts, 1940
“Wielding the axe, chopping, sawing, felling trees, dragging logs etc, is all part of the work now being done by women of the Forestry Section of the Women’s Land Army in this big forest under the Forestry Commission.
Photo shows women foresters trimming a tree trunk with a cross-cut saw after felling.”
Photo taken by London News Agency on 9 September 1940.
Source: Catherine Procter Collection
![A group of Bedfordshire land girls who joined the crowds celebrating the VE Day radio announcement at 3pm in St Paul's Square, Bedford, 8 May 1945. 'Victory in Europe [VE] Day' marked the end of the Second World War in Europe. The Allies continued fighting in Japan in the Far East until VJ Day [Victory over Japan] on 15 August 1945. Source: Bedfordshire Times. Courtesy of Stuart](https://i0.wp.com/www.womenslandarmy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/VE-Day-St-Pauls-Square.jpg?resize=520%2C245&ssl=1)
