Land Girl - The Happiest Years of My Early Life

A Memoir of Service in the Women's Land Army 1939-46

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Prologue – The Sullivans, the Harlows and My Childhood

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Mother’s Family After

Mother’s brother John became a Roman Catholic priest. Mary entered the civil service, and followed her father into the Customs House, remaining a spinster all her life. Monica entered the religious life and became a nun. Jimmy, brother James, failed in a vocation in the priesthood. He appears not to have made much of his life. After marriage and failing to have children, he and his wife adopted a boy, but that ended also in failure him causing them no end of trouble.

Caring Family to Us Children

Aunts and uncles on either side of the family were mostly kind to me and my brother and sister when children, obviously understanding how difficult things were at home. This kindness that sustained us, and made a difficult situation better was not provided by aunt Mary who had a very sharp tongue that she retained all her life. Toward mother and us children, she was always critical and demanding. Apart from uncle John, and aunt Monica all aunts and uncles lived in Liverpool for the rest of their lives.

Father and the First World War

Father despite serving in a Liverpool infantry regiment – cannon fodder – was to survive the Great War, but he was incapacitated by German poison gas, captured and became a prisoner of war in Italy. Strangely, this gassing was a blessing because it probably saved his life, preventing his return to the trenches. Eventually with the war’s end he returned to Eileen. On that return he and mother took up married life in Tuebrook in reduced circumstances, and he endeavored to set up his own business as a decorator and painter.

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Proud member of the Women's Land Army, Jeanne Flann, nee Harlow, here. Happily retired in Utah after a full and satisfying life that got off to a great start working as a Land Girl in the Trough of Bowland, you can read more about me.

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Book Outline

  • Introduction
  • Part One
    • Chapter 1 – Prologue, the Sullivans, the Harlows and My Childhood
    • Chapter 2 – Joining Up – The Women’s Land Army
    • Chapter 3 – Lancashire College of Agriculture at Hutton
  • Part Two
    • Chapter 4 – Lower Greenbank Farm Over Wyresdale
    • Chapter 5 – Holt Farm Gateacre – Tragedy & Deliverance
    • Chapter 6 – Marshaw, The Trough of Bowland Fells
  • Part Three
    • Chapter 7 – Epilogue
    • Chapter 8 – Recognition at Last
  • Appendix

All Sections

  • Introduction to My Land Girls Memoir
  • Prologue – The Sullivans, the Harlows and My Childhood
  • Joining Up – The Women’s Land Army
  • Lancashire College of Agriculture at Hutton
  • First Assignment as a Land Girl: Lower Greenbank Farm, Over Wyresdale
  • Second Assignment as a Land Girl: Holt Hall Farm, Liverpool – Tragedy and Deliverance
  • Last and Best Assignment as a Land Girl: Marshaw – The Trough of Bowland
  • Epilogue – Life After Being a Land Girl in the WLA

Land Girls Memoirs and Other Memoirs

In the two step process of creating a paper memoir and now converting it into a web based one, it is my hope that my memoir, Land Girl - The Happiest Years of Early Childhood joins other Land Girl memoirs as a member of that genre, and contributes to it.

My husband has his own memoir through the same process as mine, paper memoir first, then website GunnerFlann.com. He too hopes his memoir contributes to the National Service Memoirs genre.

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