Land girl Frances Taylor (nee Harvie) driving a farm cart at Lucindale |
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Title : | Land girl Frances Taylor (nee Harvie) driving a farm cart at Lucindale |
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Source : | B 59102 | ||
Date of creation : | ca. 1943 | ||
Format : | Photograph | ||
Dimensions : | 155 x 200 mm | ||
Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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Description : |
Land girl Francis Taylor (nee Harvie) driving a farm cart, Lucindale. The Australian Women's Land Army was formed in 1942 in response to the acute shortage of rural workers. Recruits were required to be British subjects or immigrants from Allied nations and to be between 18 and 50 years of age. Some farmers expressed skepticism about the prospects of farm work done by women with little experience on the land, but many Women's Land Army workers earned respect for their contributions. |
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Related names : | Taylor, Frances |
Period : | 1939-1945 |
Place : | Lucindale |
Further reading : | Beaumont, Joan (ed.) Australia's war, 1939-1945, St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1996 Tyrer, Nicola They fought in the fields: the Women's Land Army: the story of a forgotten victory London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996 The Home front family album: remembering Australia 1939-1945, introduction by Nancy Keesing, Sydney: Weldon, 1991 |
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