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After a a sixty odd year delay the efforts of the Land Girls, who worked on farms throughout the country during the Second World War, have finally been officially recognised.

Farringdon W.I. Member Molly Wilcox has now received her badge and certificate for her “unsparing efforts as a loyal and devoted member of the Women’s Land Army” during WW2.
Never thanked properly after the war, the badge now marks the significant contribution made to the war effort by so many hard working young women.
Molly was one of many who responded to the wartime government campaign to join the "Women's Land Army" set up to provide a source of labour on farms to replace former farm workers serving in the armed forces.

After a few weeks basic training the Land Girls were sent out to farms all over the country.

Molly worked in Warwickshire and remembers the days of hard graft as "character-building".
Her jobs included milking cows, driving tractors, muck-spreading and turning the hay.
Other memories include having to work unpaid overtime, being trodden on by a cart horse and breathing in the dust from threshing.
Friendships were made too and when Molly and her husband married two weeks after V.E. Day, they had a land girl guard of honour.

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Thanks to Julia Pickering for providing the information on this page and the picture of Molly
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