item details
NameFormer Land Girl at Women's Land Service reunion and anniversary marking end of Second World War
ProductionUnknown; photographer; August 1995; New Zealand
Classificationcolour prints
Materialsphotographic paper
Materials SummaryColour photograph
Techniquescolour photography
DimensionsImage: 101mm (width), 130mm (height)
Registration NumberO.043729
Credit lineGift of Pat Rogers, 2016
Overview
This photograph was taken at a reunion of the Women's Land Service in Wellington at an event marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in August 1995.
The woman in this photograph (name unknown) was a Land Girl during the war.
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.*
*Bardsley, D. (2000). The Land Girls: In a Man's World, 1939-1946, p. 6.
*Bardsley, D. (2000). The Land Girls: In a Man's World, 1939-1946, p. 6.