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Description

A file of documents relating to the meetings of the Essex Women's Land Army (W.L.A.) County Committee between 1939 and 1942. Subjects discussed in the file include the administration of the committee, including staff appointments and resignations; the recruitment process for volunteer girls, including interviews and medical checks; the promotion of the W.L.A. through publicity campaigns, including rallies at an agricultural show, hospital volunteering, fetes, films, and advertising; and vocational training provisions, including classes and lectures for tractor-driving, milking, poultry-keeping, thatching, and forestry work. Other subjects covered include the working conditions of volunteers, including wages, working hours, and holidays; clothing provisions, including uniforms, haversacks, and ties; visits to a sugar beet factory and a mushroom farm; the provision of rationed food, including sugar for preserves; air-raid precaution arrangements; and logistics and welfare, including the provision of accommodation, transportation, sanitation facilities, and medical treatment for sickness and injury.

Keywords

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