Timber

The Women’s Forestry Corps was set up in 1916 and employed gangs of women to carry out forestry work to increase timber production.

These women later becoming part of the WLA. By January 1918, 400 women worked as foresters in the Women’s Land Army.

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A member of the Women’s Forestry Corps.
Source: Catherine Procter WLA Collection
Photographs of Timber Corps in Norfolk. Source: The Landswoman, February 1918, page 26.
Photographs of timber workers in Norfolk.
Source: The Landswoman, February 1918, page 26.

Summary adapted by Stuart Antrobus from The Women’s Land Army: a Portrait (Gill Clarke)