Women's Land Army and Timber Corps Badge
Colour photograph of the Women's Land Army and Timber Corps Badge in its presentation case. Presented in 2009 the badge was the first official recognition of the contribution made to the war effort by members of the Women's Land Army (WLA) and the Women's Timber Corps (WTC). Affectionately known as 'Land Girls' and 'Lumber Jills', they worked tirelessly to supply the nation with food and timber during the dark war years of World War II., All surviving members of the Women's Land Army and the Women's Timber Corps will receive this special badge which bears the Royal Crown and shows a gold wheat sheaf on a white background surrounded by a circlet of pine branches and pine cones to indicate the work of both the Land Army and the Timber Corps.
The Women's Land Army was formed at the outbreak of World War II to 'work on the land, freeing the male workers to go to war. By 1943 there were some 80,000 young women working in every aspect of agriculture to feed the nation. They wore a uniform of green ties, green jumpers and brown felt slouch hats and they worked from dawn to dusk each day, milking cows, digging ditches, sowing seeds and harvesting crops.
At the Armed Forces Day Parade at Drummuie on 21 June 2010 Mrs Flower Thomson, Deputy Lieutenant presented badges to Susan Read of Bonar Bridge, Sheila Speak of Dornoch and Margaret Martin of Golspie, who had all served in the Women's Land Army, During the preceding weeks Mrs Thomson had tracked down a total of nine Land Girls and had previously presented six of them with their medals – Isabella Gray, Dorothy Mackenzie, Tina Dickinson and Jane Heath all of Dornoch, Helen Innes of Golspie and Vera Macdonald of Ardgay.
These Sutherland ladies had all worked on farms during the Second World War, often from dawn to dusk helping towards the war effort.
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