item details
NameWomen's Land Service reunion
ProductionGreen & Hahn; photography studio; April 1981; New Zealand
Classificationcolour prints, group portraits
Materialsphotographic paper
Materials SummaryColour photography
Techniquescolour photography
DimensionsImage: 251mm (width), 203mm (height)
Registration NumberO.043722
Credit lineGift of Pat Rogers, 2016
Overview
This photograph was taken at a reunion of the Women's Land Service (WLS) in April 1981, which marked the 35th anniversary of the disbandment of the WLS.
The Women's Land Service was the largest of the women's war services in New Zealand during the Second World War (1939-45). 2,711 land girls were placed on farms, and hundreds more served unofficially on family farms, totalling 2,963 different farms.*
'Mum' has been picked out near the back of the group - this is Margaret Josephine Mitchell (1917-97) who was a Land Girl in Taranaki during the war.
*Bardsley, D. (2000). The Land Girls: In a Man's World, 1939-1946, p. 6.
The Women's Land Service was the largest of the women's war services in New Zealand during the Second World War (1939-45). 2,711 land girls were placed on farms, and hundreds more served unofficially on family farms, totalling 2,963 different farms.*
'Mum' has been picked out near the back of the group - this is Margaret Josephine Mitchell (1917-97) who was a Land Girl in Taranaki during the war.
*Bardsley, D. (2000). The Land Girls: In a Man's World, 1939-1946, p. 6.