'It's About Time, but I'm Pleased' ; Surviving Land Girls Are Celebrating Today As It Was Officially Announced They Would Be Honoured for Their Wartime Service.

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › July 03, 2008

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Surviving Land Girls are celebrating today as it was officially announced they would be honoured for their wartime service.

At their peak in 1943 the Women's Land Army was 80,000 strong. There were also 4,000 "Lumber Jills" - members of the Women's Timber Corps.

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'It's About Time, but I'm Pleased' ; Surviving Land Girls Are Celebrating Today As It Was Officially Announced They Would Be Honoured for Their Wartime Service.

Now, 63 years after World War II ended, the Government is awarding survivors an official badge in...

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