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Description: | Look at the badge on the shoulder of Wendy's coat. WLA stands for Women's Land Army. When German submarines attacked and destroyed British food ships during the Second World War, more food needed to be grown at home. In wartime women farmed the land so that people had enough to eat. Heavy, tough and practical, this coat kept Wendy warm as she worked on Pouparts' farm in Hersham. Wendy joined the Land Army because she wanted to do her bit, but did not want to work in a munitions factory or the women's armed services. Her favourite job was "mucking in", spreading pig manure on the ploughed fields. More than 2000 women like Wendy joined the Surrey Land Army. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Rights holder: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Subjects: | Power and Politics Home and Family | Temporal: | 1939-45 | Source: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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