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British land girl served with Women's Land Army in Shropshire, GB, 1941-1945
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REEL 1 Background in GB, 1918-1940: family; education; reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939. Aspects of enlistment and training as land girl with Women's Land Army in GB, 1941: joining Women's Land Army; posting to training camp at Moulton; training and duties; pay; uniform; accommodation; attitude towards training. Recollections of period as land girl with Women's Land Army in Shropshire, GB, 1941-1945: posting to dairy farm at Oswestry; attitude towards living on farm; duties; welfare provided for land girls; daily routine; adapting to physical nature of work; working hours; coping with adverse weather conditions; uniform.
REEL 2 Continues: social life; question of accidents; pay and leave; attitude towards being billeted on farm; coping with sick animals; attitude towards work; physical impact of work; leaving farm due to illness of brother; move to Women's Land Army hostel; general domestic duties; nursing sick brother and his subsequent death; move to farm at Derwen Cripples Training College military hospital, Gobowen, 1942; duties; witnessing trains of wounded returning from Normandy, France, 6/1944; contact with wounded at Derwen Cripples Training College military hospital; helping out at hospital; daily routine; threshing duties.
REEL 3 Continues: farm duties; lack of help; looking after bull; water rationing; clothes rationing; relations with staff and patients at military hospital; social life; attitude towards American servicemen stationed in area; difficulty of visiting fiance; marriage; contact with district representative of Women's Land Army; attitude towards lack of recognition for work of Women's Land Army; impact of war on her life; witnessing air raids on Liverpool; end of war; VE and VJ Day celebrations, 1945.
REEL 4 Continues: reason for leaving Women's Land Army; attitude towards British Government's post-war treatment of land girls of Women's Land Army; expectations for post-war GB.