Duties

Around 64,000 women joined the armed forces in the war. They also under took the
duties of:

factory
mechanics tank drivers engineers shipbuilding
work

air raid driving fire

nurses
wardens engines
 The Women’s Land Army
It was started in 1939 as Britain required more food for the war.

80,000 women joined the Woman’s Land Army.

These type of posters were printed and put up for encouraging recruitment:
 The Women’s Land Army
Women of the Land Army would work on British farms by ploughing, caring for
the animals, dealing with pests and digging.

They worked very hard, up to 50 hours a week in order to contribute to the war
effort. They were paid £1.85 a week!
 A Memorial to the Women of War
This is a memorial stand in Whitehall
which is 22 feet high to remind us of the
work that the women did for us in World
War 2.
 Questions Time

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What do you think would
? Do you think that it would
have happened if the British be a good idea to have the
women of war did nothing Land Army in a modern
at all? day war, if it ever
happened?