The work of women during World War Two will be remembered at the National Memorial Arboretum.
A new memorial is set to be unveiled later this month at the Alrewas site in memory of the work of ‘Land Girls’ during the conflict.
A spokesperson for the Womens Land Army Tribute group, who are behind the new memorial, explained: “During the war years, with the men away fighting, it was up to volunteer girls to work our rural lands, to help feed the war effort and the nation as well as helping to maintain wood supplies, hence the references to these young girls as Land Girls and Lumber Jill’s.”
A service will take place at 2pm on October 21 on Millennium Avenue ahead of the dedication for the new memorial, which has been created following an £85,000 fundraising drive.
The memorial depicts two women and has been created by Staffordshire sculptor Denise Dutton.
