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Memories of Service 5 - Joan Butland
Web (Full Length Episode) – 2017
Joan Butland forged her father’s signature to join the Women’s Land Service. Her parents had already stopped her from becoming a nurse, so nothing was going to get in her way this time. Coming from a farm, her transition to the service was easy. But at just 17, her slight frame raised eyebrows among burly farmers, especially when it came to harnessing horses and driving four-horse teams. Butland shows pride in her home front contribution to World War ll in this interview, although in common with other former Land Girls it was only formally recognised in 2015.
When it came to Mum and Dad signing to let me join the nursing service the matron had told them she was losing nurses through pregnancy to the air force blokes up at the airport. So she wouldn’t let me go.– Joan Butland
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