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The Women's Land Army was an organisation created in World War II in the UK to work in agriculture. The Women's Land Army first asking for volunteers and later used conscription, so that by 1944 it had over 80,000 members.

During World War II a Women's Land Army was also formed in the United States, lasting from 1943 to 1947, and the Australian Women's Land Army was formed in Australia, lasting from July 27, 1942 until 1945.

There was also a Women's Land Army in the UK during World War I. Towards the end of 1917 there were over 260,000 women working as farm labourers.

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The Women's Land Army of the UK was featured in the film The Land Girls.

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Victory garden, Rosie the Riveter

World War II groups

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