YOU will be aware that representation has been made to the government to recognise the service rendered by members of the Women's Land Army during the war and suggestion that a special badge be given to the surviving members and also to the Women's Timber Corps.
On Thursday, July 24, my wife Doris received her badge, together with a letter from the Prime Min-ister, Gordon Brown.
My wife joined the Women's Land Army when she was aged 19, in 1941, and was allocated to an arable farm in Wilmington, Kent, wh
ere she worked with four other girls.
This farm was not far from Dartford Heath, where there was an ack-ack gun emplacement visited by the Luftwaffe.
Sadly, of the five girls, only two are still with us, my wife (87) and her close friend Nancy Johnson (née Stevens), who suffers from acute arthritis – the aftermath of driving a tractor in all weathers.
No doubt there are many of the ladies locally who have received badges –many years too late.
Roy Reading
Sompting Road
LancingNOTE: All letters must include a name and address which can be withheld by request.
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