Posted by Ken
on 22/10/2009, 14:28:18, in reply to "Special meeting at BP today"
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Interesting to note that for the third time this year Princess Michael has been at BP without her Prince. In June for The Queen's Birthday Parade, then for the pre-Indian State Visit reception and now for tea with the War Girls !!
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: The "Land Girls" and "Lumber
: Jills" who helped keep Britain supplied
: with food and timber during
: WWII wil be having tea with Her Majesty and
: several (senior) members of the RF at
: Buckingham Palace today.
:
: More than 90 veterans will join the monarch
: - who herself served in the war as No.
: 230873 Second Subaltern Elizabeth Alexandra
: Mary Windsor of the Auxiliary Territorial
: Service - in the Buckingham Palace ballroom
: to reminisce about their experiences.
:
: The Duke of Edinburgh, the Duchess of
: Cornwall, Princess Alexandra and Princess
: Michael of Kent will also join them.
:
: The Women's Land Army (WLA) and Women's
: Timber Corps (WTC) took on tough, physical
: work on the Home Front in the 1940s. The WLA
: was set up in June 1939 to help on farms,
: increase the amount of food grown in Britain
: and replace male agricultural workers, who
: were away fighting the war.
:
: Its advertising slogan proclaimed: "For
: a healthy, happy job join The Women's Land
: Army".
:
: At its peak in 1943, there were 80,000
: "Land Girls" who carried out
: everything from hoeing, ploughing and
: hedging to lifting potatoes, lambing and
: looking after poultry. Around 1,000 women
: were employed as rat catchers. The Land
: Girls wore uniforms of green ties and
: jumpers and brown felt slouch hats.
:
: The gathering marks the anniversary of the
: WLA's disbandment 59 years ago on October
: 21, 1950. More than 6,000 "Lumber
: Jills" worked in the Timber Corps. They
: felled trees and ran sawmills, supplying the
: mining industry and aircraft manufacturers.
:
: In December 2007, the Government presented
: surviving members of the WLA and WTC with a
: badge commemorating their service and
: acknowledging the debt the country owed
: them.
:
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