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Findmypast adds Women's Land Army service cards

ervice cards for women who served in the Women's Land Army (WLA)). The WLA recruited women to work on farms to replace men who had been called up to fight. The Findmypast collection consists of 128,440 index cards held by The National Archives at Kew, containing details such as a woman's address, date of birth and occupation before joining the WLA. The cards were previously exclusive to Ancestry ().

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