Picture No | 12688598 |
Date | 1918 |
Description | Female land army workers resting after a full day 1918 |
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Women in Theydon, Essex, resting, socialising and reading in their club room after a day's training for land army work. The Women's Land Army was established in 1917 to replace male workers in agriculture as they went to fight in the First World War.
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Source | Unattributed photographer in ‘The Sphere’, 4 May 1918, page 86 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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