Memorial

Women's Land Army

Women's Land Army 1

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Memorial is on left-hand side of Millennium Avenue, between Giffard Avenue and Market Garden Way, National Memorial Arboretum, Croxall Road, Alrewas, Lichfield, Staffordshire, DE13 7AR, England

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SK 18368 14536

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Sculptured / Cast group
WMR Reference Number: 74909
Description: A bronze statue depicting a Land Army girl linking arms with a Timber Corps girl. The statue is fixed to a square sandstone plinth with commemorations engraved on each face. The memorial is placed on a square base of Yorkshire flagstones (or similar).
Inscription: [Front face at 6 o'clock]:WOMEN'S LAND ARMY/1917-1919 AND 1939-1950/WOMEN'S TIMBER CORPS 1942-1946/ DURING THE FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WARS, OVER 240,000 LAND GIRLS AND LUMBER JILLS/ RPOVIDED FOOD AND TIMBER FOR THE WAR EFFORTS. ON BEHALF OF OUR NATION, WE/ EXTEND OUR THANKS AND APPRECIATION FOR THE COMMITMENT AND ENDEAVOIUR/ SHOWN BY THESE YOUNG WOMEN./ THIS TRIBUTE WAS UNVEILED BY/ HRH THE COUNTESS OF WESSEX GCVO/ 21ST OCTOBER 2014/ 'A GREAT RESPONSE BY THE WOMEN OF OUR COUNTRY TO THE CALL OF DUTY IN THE NATION'S HOUR/ OF DANGER AND NEED...AND FOR THIS, THE NATION OWES THEM AN EVERLASTING DEBT'./ HER LATE MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER/ PATRON OF THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY AND WOMEN'S TIMBER CORPS/ [Back face, at 12 o'clock]: A STAFFORDSHIRE WOMEN'S FOOD AND FARMING UNION (WFU) INITIATIVE/ SCULPTOR DENISE DUTTON/ [Side face, at 3 o'clock]:HE WORK OF THE LAND GIRLS INCLUDED:/ TENDING LIVESTOCK, MILKING, MILK DELIVERY, HANDLING HEAVY HORSES AND/ TRACTOR DRIVING, DUNG SPREADING, PLOUGHING, HARROWING, SOWING, SINGLING/ HOEING, VEGETABLE GROWING, GLASSHOUSE WORK, SPRAYING, HARVESTING, FRUIT PICKING,/ THATCHING, HAY MAKING, RAT CATCHING, POULTRY KEEPING, BEE KEEPING,/ SHEPHERDING, LAND CLEARING, DITCHING AND DRAINAGE. [Side face, at 9 o'clock]: THE WORK OF THE LUMBER JILLS INCLUDED:/ TIMBER SELECTION AND ADMINISTRATION, TREE MEASURING, FELLING, SAWING, SNIGGING,/ SNEDDING, HANDLING HEAVY HORSES AND TRUCK DRIVING, LAND CLEARING, PEST CONTROL,/ TREE PLANTING, PRODUCTION OF RAILWAY SLEEPERS, TELEGRAPH POLES, BARRICADES,/ PIT PROPS, HEDGE LAYING, PRUNING AND CHARCOAL LAYING.

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War: First World War (1914-1918)

War: Second World War (1939-1945)

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