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Written on behalf of Stella Elms by Bognor Library.

I was on the Hog鈥檚 Back in Guildford with a herd of pedigree jersey cows and we were all girls on the diary team under a herds women. There were 5 of us, all from different parts of the country and backgrounds. Lots had never worked before. I was 17 and I had worked in an office. We had fun 鈥� we went into Guildford in the evening and inevitably the cows would get out and we would have to go back. The man we worked for was actually a millionaire and lived in a big house. We stayed in the servants quarters 鈥� we were very well looked after. There about 300 or 400 acres to tend. There were cows, crops, chickens and there was an experimental maize crop. I came out of the Land Army in 1947 when my husband came out of the army.

The merchant navy and the land army never got a gratuity at the endof the war. But we were allowed to keep our great coats (bum- freezers!). I remember a black and white cartoon in the Land Army magazine which pictured a girl in the coat and nothing else! The caption was 鈥� blow, blow, thou wind even though art not so unkind as man鈥檚 ingratitude鈥�

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