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HAD NO FOOD FOR DAYS

... HAD NO FOOD FOR DAYS. A young woman who had been dismissed from the Woman's Land Army a week ago and was found dead on a lonely strip of moorland in Cornwall was stated by a pathologist at the inquest at Cambourne to have had no food for three or four ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1939
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

DELIVERY EXPECTED SOON

... White. All sizes from 6to 11. No coupons. pairs of ladies’ best Box Hide Boots, made for the Woman’s Land Army. All sizes. No conpons. Delivery later. 250 pairs Army Canvas Shoes for ladies and gents. All sizes from 4to 11. No coupons. Wimj bi«. All Ihut ...

Published: Friday 27 June 1947
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 99 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

30 LAND GIRLS ESCAPE IN FIRE

... 30 LAND GIRLS ESCAPE IN FIRE FROM KENTISH HOSTEL Thirty girls were asleep in the upper rooms of a Woman's Land Army hostel at Town Hill, West Mailing, near Maidstone, Kent, during the night when one of the girls was awakened by the smell of smoke and ...

Published: Wednesday 10 August 1949
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Applications are invited immediately from women resident in Northern Ireland who- wish to join the Women’s Land ..

... . NOTICE TO FARMERS. ; .- Farmers who can provide board and lodging and who dre prepared - to train members of the Woman’s Land Army arg invited to apply to the Ministry of Agriculture. Preference will be given to those farmers who undertake to employ ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1941
Newspaper: Mid-Ulster Mail
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 214 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ROME SERVICE

... Chesterfield. 7.15, Farm Record. 7.25, Miss Barbara Brew gives her monthly talk to the Woman’s Land Army: on this occasion she brings with her Mrs. Byke, editor of “The Land Girl.” 7.30, News in Norwegian. 7.45, 8.8. C. Northern Orchestra. 8.25, “Goodnight ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1942
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 378 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

■ AT A Cif ANCE ■

... a Forgotten Victory, this tells the story of the unsung heroines of the Second World War: the 80,000 members of the Woman's Land Army. Their job was to feed the nation without having a bull's notion of how to do it. The farming community treated them ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1996
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 436 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

YOUNG WOMAN CHARGED

... farm girl to milk cows and rear calves, I wish to recommend a very respectable farmer’s danghter. She served in the Woman’s Land Army in England and had to do all farm werk, milk cows, etc. She was demobilised in 1920. She is strong and healthy, and fond ...

Published: Thursday 31 March 1921
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Ro—evth Explaint

... aiding Nazi persecution of the Jews would death. Lord* Debate Page Two. MRS. F.D.R. SUGGESTS Woman’s Land Army For U.S. /CREATION of Volunteer Women’s Land Army, like that in Britain,” to increase America’s agricultural manpower suggested by ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1942
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 518 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CASE OF SKILLED FEMALE LABOUR

... with the auxiliary Territorial services and the Air Ministry, and 55,000 for a woman's land army. Women who are in the reserved occupations are prevented from joining the Land Arr - y because it would take them out of industry and put them into agriculture ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1939
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REBEL SOCIALISTS CAUSE SCENE

... needed and the main qualifications for work in each department. Besides those associated with A.R.P., there is to be a woman's land army. Consequently, the reserved occupations would be more numerous than those earmarked in 1917. The occupations he mentioned ...

Published: Wednesday 21 December 1938
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 756 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ST. GEORGE’S CHURCH

... Welsh; 5-20, Children 6-0. News; 6-30, Firing Squad in France; 6- Northern Music-Hall. 7-15. Farm Record 7-25. For Woman's Land Army; 7- News in Norwegian; 7-45. Northern Orch. 8-25. Play. Goodnight. New World. 9-0. News; 9-25, War Commentary; 9-40. ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1942
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 773 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Tale of the celebrated Dambusters raid

... town of Bridgend in 1945. 10.00 The Land Girls 66141769 (1998, Drama) Catherine McCormack and Rachel Weisz. Wartime tale of three very different young women who go to work on a Dorset farm for the Woman's Land Army. 12.05 Snow Graham Modem: The Hollywood ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 2003
Newspaper: Gorey Guardian
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 740 | Page: 75 | Tags: none