irst set up in January 1917, the Women’s Land Army (WLA) was a civilian organisation that employed women to work on the land during the First World War. In June 1939, the organisation was restarted, recruiting tens of thousands of mostly young women, known as ‘Land Girls’. These women carried out invaluable, but often overlooked, agricultural work to replace men who were conscripted. Often in their late teens or early twenties, women with little agricultural experience were tasked
