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Many land girls lived in at the farms where they worked. However, in many rural areas, living conditions could be very basic and the lifestyle lonely. As larger numbers of women were recruited, hostels were set up to house land girls. By 1944, there were 22,000 land girls living in 700 hostels.
The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLA were commonly known as Land Girls (Land Lassies). [1] The Land Army placed women with farms that ...
The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was created in 1917 to call women to work in agriculture, filling the gap in the labour force left by men going to fight in the First World War. Government officials worked hard to encourage women to join. This certificate was issued to women who served in the Land Army to thank them for their wartime service.
February 1943: 53,500 Land Girls working on the land. June 1943: 65,000 Land Girls working on the land – producing 70% of Britain’s food. August 1943: Recruitment to the Women’s Land Army is stopped by a decision of the War Cabinet (more workers were needed in the aircraft production industry).
The Women’s Land Army was established in January 1917 to help increase the amount of food grown within Britain. It was wound up in 1919, and then re-established shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, in June 1939. It was finally disbanded in 1950. At its peak in 1943 over 80,000 women worked as ‘land girls’.
Working closely with half a million working horses on Britain’s farms, the Women’s Land Army helped to feed the nation and fuel the war effort on the home front. At its peak in 1944, more than 80,000 female workers – known as ‘Land Girls’ – had joined the WLA. Supported by their hardworking horses, they were producing 70 per cent of ...
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The Women’s Land Army was set up in June 1939 and by September it had over 1,000 members. By 1941, its numbers had risen to 20,000 and, at its peak in 1943, over 80,000 women classed themselves as ‘Land Girls’. Numbers did not rise after that, as women were needed to make aircraft and were encouraged to take up factory work instead.
