The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Tambar Springs, NSW. December 1945. A member of the Australian Women's Land Army washing her clothes in a boiler on Merrigular Property owned by Mr Cadell near Premer. Six members of the Land Army, worked on this property and lived in shearer's huts, two to a room. The women undertook a variety of jobs around the farm, including lamb marking, dipping, cleaning the fly blown eyes of sheep, helping in the shearing shed, driving and maintaining a tractor and header, cutting and baling seed lucerne, and harvesting wheat. The women worked long and irregular hours and had no set leave, earning 30/- per week. (Donor P. George)
Tambar Springs, NSW. December 1943. Five of the six members of the Australian Women's Land Army, who worked at Merrigula Property near Premer, sitting on top of a stack of bagged oats. Identified, fro
Wagga, NSW. 1946. Peggy Hull, a member of the Australian Women's Land Army, and Mr Horton, the owner of Alabamba property on which two Land Army women worked, punching the skin from a sheep carcass to
TOTAL AUSTRALIAN RICE CROP IS NOW BEING USED FOR ARMY PURPOSES - THE NEED FOR HARVESTING IS ACUTE. LAND ARMY GIRLS ARE ASSISTING IN THE HARVESTING OF RICE IN THE LEETON AREA. THIS PHOTO TAKEN AT A NEW
AUSTRALIA AT WAR: TOTAL AUSTRALIAN RICE CROP IS NOW BEING USED FOR ARMY PURPOSES - THE NEED FOR HARVESTING IS ACUTE. LAND ARMY GIRLS ARE ASSISTING IN THE HARVESTING OF RICE IN THE LEETON AREA. THIS PH
WERRIBEE, VIC. 1942-10-30. MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S LAND ARMY HARVESTING VEGETABLE SEED WITH A REAPING HOOK ON A GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENTAL FARM. LEFT TO RIGHT: MISS MARGARET CRESWICK AND MISS M
MISS BETTY MCKIBBON (FOREGROUND) AND MISS SHIRLEY GORDON, MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S LAND ARMY, PICKING UP FLEECES AFTER THE SHEEP ARE SHORN IN A COUNTRY SHEARING SHED. (COPY IN ALBUM PRESENTED
