10/09/08 - Goltho & Wragby: Land girls honoured
Published Date:
12 September 2008
MORE memories of unsung heroes who worked on farms during the Second World War have been revived this week.
The Women's Land Army employed tens of thousands of women, or land girls as they were known, during the war and up until the organisation's demise in 1950.The women are now entitled to official government recognition for their tireless work and Joan Bruntlett of Goltho and Ivy Sleight of Wragby have recently received badges and certificates of honour, signed by Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
Joan joined the Women's Land Army in 1941. She arrived at H Bruntlett and Son's Shepherds Farm in Goltho from Barton upon Humber. Her work on the farm included potato picking, beet singling, helping with the harvest and beet lifting. Joan eventually married the farmer's son and remained in Goltho.
Ivy Sleight, (nee Pye) of Wragby left school in Hemingby at the age of 14 to serve at Tomlins of Low Toynton. She then worked at Arthur Hall farms at Hackhorn and milked cows from 1944 to 1946.
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12 September 2008 3:51 PM
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