Former Land Army girl from Hereford is off to see the Queen

A Hereford woman who came to the city during the second world war to work on the land, is off to see the Queen.

When war broke out, 17-year-old Pamela Portman, who lived in London at the time, seized the opportunity to come to Hereford and work as part of the legions of women who turned their hand to agriculture and formed the Land Army.

Some of her memories were read out a special service held in Hereford Cathedral earlier this year in honour of the Land Army and Timber Corps.

In these she recalls regularly getting up at 6am to milk the cows and muck spreading.

Now Pamela, from Sudbury Avenue, has been invited to represent her colleagues who worked on the land during the war at a lunch at London’s Royal Opera House on Wednesday, October 21, followed by tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

The lunch, which will be hosted by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (DEFRA) and tea at Buckingham Palace are being held to honour and offer thanks and gratitude for the efforts of members of the Women’s Land Army and Women’s Timber Corps during the war.

Source: Lady Darnley,
Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire

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