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Object description
British civilian worked in leather factory in London, GB, 1913-1918; forester worked with Women's Land Army Forestry Corps in GB, 1918
Content description
REEL 1 Background in London, GB, 1897-1913: family; education. Recollections of period as leather machinist in factory in London, GB, 1913-1918: employment as leather machinist; pay; injury recieved whilst using machine; description of leather working machine; outbreak of First World War, 8/1914; death of parents.
REEL 2 Continues: operating leather working machine; how women took over men's jobs in factory during war; noise of machines; working conditions; description of factory; other workers in factory; interest in music; supervision in factory and discipline.
REEL 3 Continues: pay and working hours; post-war membership of union; death of male friend serving in Royal Army Medical Corps, 1916; death of mother; mourning clothes worn; wounding of brother.
REEL 4 Continues: death of former male colleagues; degree of awareness of war's progress; death of male friends; attitude towards war; further details of death of mother.
REEL 5 Continues: attending Women's Land Army recruitment fair. Recollections of period as forester with Women's Land Army Forestry Corps in GB, 1918: medical; uniform; move to Sussex; description of billets; pay and rations; further details of uniform.
REEL 6 Continues: hair styles; opinion of uniform; story of attending concert wearing her Women's Land Army Forestry Corps uniform after Armistice; attitude towards service; lack of training; French member of corps.
REEL 7 Continues: duties; use of logs as props in trenches; memories of colleagues working in the corps; rations; work felling trees for trench props.
REEL 8 Continues: effects of heavy nature of work; medical prior to joining corps; attitude of family towards her work; accommodation; rations and working hours; hair styles; socialising with Canadian troops. Aspects of civilian employment after 1918: return to leather factory; work as ward maid in hospital.
REEL 9 Continues: tuberculosis patients in hospital; duties as ward maid. Aspects of period as forester with Women's Land Army Forestry Corps in GB, 1918: pay and accommodation; recruitment procedure; issue of uniform; description of uniform worn for forestry work.