Vicky Iglikowski-Broad, diverse histories specialist at The National Archives, said: “This collection is a powerful source for tracing an individual’s service and gaining a wider perspective on the Women’s Land Army. If there’s a Land Girl in your family tree, these records provide a glimpse of what role they would have once held, show whether they were transferred to different areas to meet the changing seasons or even reveal why they left the army.’’ “That’s why we’re excited to launch this fascinating collection online.
It was this camaraderie that helped grow the food for a nation in need and create female bonds for life,’’ said Laura House, family history expert at Ancestry. Despite these reservations, they set out to successfully prove sceptics wrong. “As the men took to the trenches in World War II, the Women’s Land Army fight was in the fields, where they often faced discrimination of whether they could carry out ‘a man’s work’. Pictured is Gwendoline Florence Payne (Image: Ancestry) The Women's Land Army were known as the 'Land Girls'. Meanwhile, 75 year-old Ida May Baker, a housewife from London and a farmer’s daughter, used her farming background and volunteered to join the Women’s Land Army in 1939. For example, 79-year-old Emmie Warrington was employed in Lancashire in 1941 before transferring to the Women’s Timber Corps in 1942. Whilst the majority of women employed by the Women’s Land Army were young and likely unmarried at the time of their enrolment, older women also joined up. Indeed only 3,624 of the Women’s Land Army recorded in the collection held farming knowledge. Many also joined without any land experience with over 17,000 women in the records coming from office administration and shop worker jobs (16,869). Others took to farm work which included ploughing, turning hay, lambing, and looking after poultry. Working in forestry as part of the Timber Corps, like 23-year-old Doris Finnamore, in Cornwall.Milking, like Louisa Cray, 36, employed in Wiltshire.Catching rats, like Violet Bullimore, 28, employed in Leicester.Members also took on a variety of roles, including: These women came from all backgrounds, with a third of the workforce from London and other large cities. Like Gwen, thousands of women across the country volunteered to uproot their lives to keep Britain running during the Second World War. She said: “My love for all things green and nature definitely has been inherited from Nanny Gwen.” Through the Index Cards on Ancestry, her granddaughter, Ellen Donovan, 32, from Brighton, was able to find out more about her grandmother’s job as a farm worker during her time in the Women’s Land Army and her ‘usual job’ as an ‘artificial flower veiner’ (someone who makes artificial flowers), offering her better understanding of Gwen’s life during the war.Įllen also has a tattoo in memory of her Nan’s camaraderie and an allotment in Brighton, where she grows her own vegetables. The index cards in the collection contributed to Second World War service records and are usually handwritten, featuring name and any known aliases including maiden names, address, employment county, employment place, birthdate, age at enrolment, occupation, date of employment, date of release and membership number.įeatured within the collection is Miss Gwendoline Florence Payne from Islington, London, who was recruited at age 21 as a farmworker in West Kent in 1941. It's about nostalgia too - and hope for the future.The Women's Land Army Index card for Gwendoline Florence Payne (Image: Ancestry) But this pilgrimage to McDonald's is more than a crosstown trek. Holovatenko and his friends have come from the other side of the city, across the Dnipro River. "It's a nice gift from McDonald's," says Yaroslav Holovatenko, as he clutches a Big and Tasty - a quarter-pounder - in a cold and rainy park in Pozniaky, an outer neighborhood of the capital Kyiv near all three of the reopened McDonald's. Regular citizens and high government officials alike flocked to snap selfies with their Big Macs and devour meals they haven't been able to enjoy in months. Three locations reopened on Tuesday, welcoming war-weary Ukrainians back beneath the warm glow of the golden arches. 24, the day Russia invaded, citing the safety of employees. The American fast food chain temporarily closed its more than 100 Ukrainian locations on Feb. KYIV, Ukraine - McDonald's has reopened in Ukraine, after seven months of war. Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images Three locations in Kyiv reopened for the first time since Russia's invasion on Feb. Customers and delivery couriers line up at a newly reopened McDonald's in Kyiv on Tuesday.
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