Women's Land Army

Members of the Women's Land Army (WLA) at work forking hay from a stack onto a horsedrawn cart for animal forage on 14th October 1940 on farmland in Lincolnshire, England. The Women's Land Army was established to meet the demand for agricultural labour caused by the absence of male farm workers on active service and the need to boost domestic food production in the face of the reduction in imports due to Nazi Germany's attacks on shipping. Over 80,000 women volunteered for the Women's Land Army. (Photo by A. J. O'Brien/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).