... had a arm, and it was there that Miss Burns gained her first experience of farming. She was also connected with the Woman’s Land Army. On the death of her father, she kept on working the farm in Dunbartonshire for some years, and then because the family ...

... of 143,000 in 1944 and included 48,000 members of the Y\Tomen's Land Army . After the war, however, the numbers gradually declined to under 58,000 in 195 1, the year after the Land Army was disbanded. There was a further fall to 35,000 in 1960, and this ...

... 10 Liverpool EDITED BY DIANA PULSON A French woman in the Red Army bv John D Berbiers Lieutenant Katia was such an unusual book telling such an incredible story that critics found little to say in its favour and prize-awarding juries only considered it ...

... WOMAN TO BE STORE MANAGERESS i But it Means a Transfer After 30 years at a local branch store. in which she rose from a part-time counter assistant to a staff supervisor, a Herne Bay woman has been appointed manageress of a branch of F. W. Woolworth and ...

... one of the oldest Heacham During the 191448 war she was a member of the Wornen's Auxiliary Army Corps and served as a coot in Mess of the High. 6ergesn I i land Light Infantry - where her brother also stationed. In the 1939-45 war she was an active member ...

... WEEKEND ARMY NOT POPULAR IN HONG KONG ViTEEKEND soldiering has never become really popula r cosmopolitan Hong Kong. Although Europeans start k i this volunteer movement, not many now support it. The men who go in for it, however, are entrusted with the ...

... LAST COVENTRY WOMAN ON MURDER CHARGE Self-defence Issue Comment by Crown IN the trial at Birmingham Assizes today of a 24 years old Coventry woman accused of murder, Mr. Michael Davies, for the Crown, told the jury that they might have to consider the ...

... waist. Cr• Two Useful tee 14/9 ARMY LEATNER JERKINS. Serge tined. Limited 28/9 Used. Grade One. 1.000 PAIN 1.1 GAUNTLET GLOVES. As illustrelet -, Reel hide. lined. New 5/9 1.000 PAIRS A RM Y MI„ W S CIOL 2/9 1.000 ARMY PULLOVERS Y. Lent: Used. Grade ...

... Defence feature of Army exercise Army will Drawn arc part ' test from the started with 1 to and examination Air display men saw gas tur-f Scout helicopter put Staff D Army Corps and air- them mobile radar equipment flying fori other equipment men five ...

... Birmingham Has No Land for Caravan Sites Birmingham cannot afford the land for caravan sites because there is not enough In the city for housing . This was stated last night by a corporation spokesman in reply to a suggestion by Mr . John Haire, chairman ...

... MARRIED FIVE MONTHS, HALIFAX WOMAN WIDOWED ' BY CAR CRASH Mr. Keith Sunderland, a 29-year-| old brewery representative, of ‘ Shann Avenue, Blackhall, Keighley, who five months ago married ‘Miss Patricia Ann Harrison, onllx; daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jac ...

... Woman and six in car crash Mrs. Patricia E. Flood. aged 29. of Woodcote Road. Bassett. near Southampton. was killed when a car hit a telegraph pole and was then in collision with a lorry at Tidmington. near Shipston-on-Stour. on Saturday. There were seven ...