- Contributed by听
- Haverhill (Suffolk) Library
- People in story:听
- Joyce Cooper
- Location of story:听
- Northamptonshire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian Force
- Article ID:听
- A3160964
- Contributed on:听
- 21 October 2004
'This story was submitted to the People's War site by Madeline Tuck of the Suffolk Library and Heritage team on behalf of Joyce Cooper and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.'
I thought it would be a good idea to join the Land Army as all my family were farmers. During the first month we were treated like slaves, even to eating at a separate table and at tea break we had to sit separately. I left my first place after a month. For a long time I was in charge of 80 cows at my second posting, and did all their milking and feeding. I moved on to do general farming towards the end of ther war, with horse drawn ploughs. The last place had beef herds and arable so I did ploughing and sugar beet 'knocking'. I was demobbed in 1946 and got a job in an estate office.
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