Original, WW1 era postcard of women land worker's recruitment / accommodation rail coaches, Northallerton and landworkers written on coach. The woman in civilian clothes at the front, wearing a dress, is probably a recruitment organiser or officer or trainer. This is thought to be a recruitment drive publicity photograph as the women are holding a selection of tools such as forks, a rake, a trug and milk can and milking stool. Perhaps the women have been on land army training course. On reverse is written "1st set of landworkers Feb 26th to March 26th 1917" Northallerton, North Yorkshire,
See Alamy ref: 2WAPTC4 for photograph of the trainer / recruiter seated at the front of this photo on the left who also appears with recruited young women landworkers at Northallerton. Women's land army recruitment timeline: Spring 1917: Recruitment to the Women’s Land Army [WLA] was the responsibility of the government’s National Service Ministry 26 March 1917: WLA training began. August 1917: The Women’s Section of the Food Production Department of the Board of Agriculture took over recruitment. July 1917: 2000 women had been placed on farms. (An initial 30,000 women responded; half were rejected.) September 1917: 247 training centres and 140 ‘practice farms’ had been set up. By the end of the war. 23,000 women successfully passed through training centres. These new full-time WLA land workers were in addition to around 300,000 part-time/ seasonal women who took up agricultural work during the Great War. Source:
Size: 6743px × 4324px
Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © ThislifeThen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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