Army
Campaign Underway for a Land Girls Memorial
They were known as the Land Girls, an army of women who worked the fields to keep Britons fed during the First and Second World Wars.
By 1943 the Women’s Land Army had 80,000 members but they were largely forgotten after the war, and it took more than 60 years for them to receive a medal honouring their work.
Now, a campaign is underway to raise a memorial for the Land Girls at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
Victoria Smith has been to meet one of them, 85-year-old Frankie Caldwell.
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