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SHOP A S S I STA N T S , C L E R K S
and
A R T I S T S
The women foresters came from all walks of life.Fisher girls from Ross-shire
exchanged a life with the sea for a life in the woods; near Kilmarnock one
observer interviewed shop assistants, a ‘shoe operative’, a lithographer and
a children’s nurse, now all engaged in forestry work. Measurers were often
ex-school teachers and clerks. Ursula Wood, an artist, closed down her
business during the war and joined the Forestry Service at the age of 50.
Women of the Forestry Service chopping
and stacking trench props
Women of the Forestry Service
felling a tree
8 materials of war