Service record book : [extracts] |
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Title : | Service record book : [extracts] |
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Creator : | Australian Women's Land Army. South Australia | ||
Source : | Taylor, Frances Roberta, PRG 596/4 | ||
Date of creation : | 1943 | ||
Format : | Manuscript | ||
Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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Description : |
Frances Harvie's Service record book for the period June 1943 to October 1945 which records her employment in the Australian Women's Land Army. It also gives the Standing Orders for service and conduct for members of the Land Army. 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 initial 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 |
Further reading : | Beaumont, Joan (ed.) Australia's war, 1939-1945, St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1996 |
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