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Timber!: Memories of Life in the Scottish Women's Timber Corps, 1942-46
Gray, Affleck (Edited by Uiga and John Robertson; with a foreword by Her Magesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother)
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1998. xiii, 189pp. B&W illustrations. Slight soiling to top edge, otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions. Frontispiece photographic illustration of "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth pays a wartime visit to Crathie church to open a sale of work. She is seen talking t…o Mary Ralph of the Women's Timber Corps". This book tells of the story of the Women's Timber Corps, who "replaced men in the forests and helped to produce the timber vital to the war effort. Their living conditions were frequently primitive and for girls who worked in shops, offices, hairdressing salons and restaurants, the hardship was daunting.".
