Tens of thousands of records relating to the crucial role of wartime 'Land Girls' have been published online for the first time.
A new collection of more than 90,000 digitised Women's Land Army cards from The National Archives can now be searched through on family history website Ancestry. The UK Women's Land Army Index Cards 1939-1948 collection contains records of employment for those who served in the Women’s Land Army from 1939 to 1948.
Originally established in 1917 during the First World War before being disbanded in 1919, the Women’s Land Army was re-mobilised at the beginning of the Second World War. Colloquially known as ‘Land Girls,’ their role was crucial to the war effort and helped increase food production across Britain.
