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Description: | British civilian served with Women's Land Army in Sussex and Surrey, GB, 1915-1919
REEL 1 Recollections of period as civilian with Women's Land Army in Sussex and Surrey 1915-1919: early employment in Nutbourne; domestic service in South Nutfield and Pulborough; family background and desire to join Women's Land Army 1915; local people's and parents' attitudes towards her joining; training at Drayton Manor Farm, Chichester; work with horses; official checks on work; receiving Good Service badge.
REEL 2 Continues: working with horses as child; learning to plough at Drayton Manor Farm, Chichester; comparison of wooden and iron ploughs; processing peas for animal fodder as child; types of people in Land Army and varying adaptability to farm life; contact with German POWs; male farm workers' attitude to women; clothing.
REEL 3 Continues: move to Drayton Manor Farm, Chichester, Sussex 1915-1919; Land Army clothing; laying straw on roads to reduce noise; footwear; feelings about wearing trousers; working hours and pay as horsewoman; billets.
REEL 4 Continues: food; receiving Good Service ribbon 1919; post war service parade in Chichester 1919; collecting straw and coal with horse and wagon; quarrying chalk for cow yard; little effect of war on lives; working in dark; working hours; helping shepherd.
REEL 5 Continues: feeding sheep; taking sheep and cow skins to tannery; hoeing; storing mangels; wetting straw for thatching; working alone and amount of contact with other Land Army workers; health; carter's antagonism towards women and deliberately causing accident to Land Army worker.
REEL 6 Continues: carter's mysogony; hierarchy on farm; billets with future husband's family; courtship and marriage 1920; Armistice Day and parade in Chichester 1919.
REEL 7 Continues: Aspects of period as civilian living in Sussex 1893-1915: education; helping at home; weeding and stone picking on family's land; rook tending; gleaning wheat; keeping pigs and preserving meat; feeding and cleaning pigs; reason for going into domestic service.
REEL 8 Continues: domestic jobs in village; going into domestic service in Surrey; becoming cook; Girls' Friendly Society. Recollections of period as civilian with Women's Land Army in Sussex and Surrey, 1915-1919: obtaining reference for Land Army from canon's wife who objected to breeches; opinion of breeches; domestic service employers; spare time Red Cross work.
REEL 9 Continues: Red Cross work and knitting for soldiers; collecting wood as child; conditions at Land Army billets; cure for head lice; Land Army inspection of second billet; bathing and washing facilities.
REEL 10 Continues: pay; supplementing billet food; billet meals; liking for horses and leading trace horse as child; dislike of cows and becoming horsewoman; training and working on Drayton Manor Farm.
REEL 11 Continues: impracticality of wearing corsets; use of hurdles for pitching sheepfold; return of men from war and transfer from horses to sheep; sheepfold described and sheep feed arrangements; grooming horses; bad weather jobs; grooming horses.
REEL 12 Continues: carter's horse language; routine for cleaning dairy yards; riding horses back from fields and signalman's trick; skill with horses and her affinity with them; recites song 'Farmer's Boy'; singing and playing jew's harp while working.
REEL 13 Continues: spare time activities; lack of contact with Land Army colleagues; needlework; sunburnt appearance; gypsies; contact with German POW farm workers; horse and wagon work during harvesting; harvesting with horse drawn binder; incident of hayrick catching fire.
REEL 14 Continues: hayrick incident; finishing hayrick edges; men's jobs done by Land Army workers; sowing corn; lone nature of farm work; contact with Land Army officers; lack of holidays; wearing Land Army badges.
REEL 15 Continues: Good Service ribbon; farm jobs disliked by Land Army workers; father's attitude towards her Land Army work; recites song 'A Jolly Boatsman' taught to her by father; ignorance about menstruation. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooks, Margaret A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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