Women’s Timber Corps

The Land Girl November 1946

The Land Girl Illustrations / Women's Timber Corps

The Land Girl Covers: November

Joy in her Women's Timber Corps uniform.

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Joy Smith

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Lumber Jills / Women's Timber Corps

Phylis Staves

Women's Timber Corps cartoon from The Land Girl, December 1944, p.7

Cartoons (WW2) / Women's Timber Corps

Happy Boxing Day 2016: WTC Cartoon

Women's Timber Corps Axes Badge

Women's Timber Corps

Women’s Timber Corps Axes Badge

Women's Timber Corps 1944 Calendar

Women's Timber Corps

1944 Women’s Timber Corps Calendar

World War Two Women's Timber Corps Badge

Women's Timber Corps

Women’s Timber Corps Badge

The first American servicemen arrived in Britain on 26 January 1942 as our new allies in the fight against Germany in the Second World War. By 1944 half a million Americans had been stationed here and had a profound effect on social life on the Home Front, especially for British women. By 1945, when the war ended, some 60,000 British women had married Americans as a result, becoming what were known as 'GI brides', and moved to the USA to start a new life. Land girls working near to American air force bombing bases in England were often in contact with American men. British men were often jealous and came up with the disparaging description of American servicemen as "over-paid, over-sexed and over here". Source: Originally published in the WW2 'Blighty' magazine and later in a 1940s cartoon anthology "Laughs around the Land. Courtesy of Stuart Antrobus.

Cartoons (WW2) / Women's Timber Corps

July Cartoon of the Month

Joan and Geoff Shutte Archive Photo 11

Photos (WW2) / Women's Timber Corps

WW2 Photos: Joan Barbara Shutte working as Lumber Jill in WTC in Dorset area (Wareham)

Lumber Jills (aka members of the Women's Timber Corps) at Culford Camp. Margaret Elizabeth Sutherland (nee Coldwell) at Culford Camp, Suffolk

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Women’s Timber Corps at Culford Camp, Suffolk