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<\/a>lumberjill<\/p><\/div>‘Jack and Jill went up the hill…’ \u00a0If this took place in Britain’s woodlands during WWII and if Jill was a Lumberjill<\/em>, then she wouldn’t be in search of water but of trees to fell, load onto trucks, and drive to the nearby sawmills.<\/p>\n Their uniforms comprised boots and jodhpurs or dungarees, their weapons were saws and axes. The women of Britain’s Women’s Timber Corps, known informally as lumberjills<\/em>, came together with the formation of the WTC in 1942. The patron was Queen Elizabeth (mother of Queen Elizabeth II). See C. Surry’s post The Lumberjills of WWII<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since the WTC was part of the (better known) Women’s Land Army, there was little recognition after the war had ended. A war memorial specifically honouring the WTC was eventually put in place at the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park in Scotland: a life-sized bronze statue that shows a lumberjill looking, axe in hand, towards the distant tree tops. Women’s Timber Corps Memorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n Addressing the need for women to become strenuously involved in war work, British trade union leader and the then Minister of Labour, Ernest Bevin, famously remarked: “It would be better to suffer temporarily than to be in perpetual slavery to the nazis.”<\/p>\n Good for you Ernie. You got that exactly right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘Jack and Jill went up the hill…’ \u00a0If this took place in Britain’s woodlands during WWII and if Jill was a Lumberjill, then she wouldn’t be in search of water but of trees to fell, load onto trucks, and drive … Continue reading