Agricultural History Review, Volume 59 Part 1 (2011), pp. 101–113

The Women’s Timber Corps (WTC) was a little-known subdivision of the Women’s Land Army. Formed officially in April 1942, and composed entirely of women, the Corps was organised to make up for the drift of male forestry workers into the Armed Forces and to assist with the drive to reduce Britain’s unsustainable reliance on imported timber. Given the relative absence of the organisation from official histories of the Second World War, the aim of this article is to reconstruct the form and function of the WTC from its early manifestation in 1917 as the Women’s Forestry Service to its final days in 1946. 

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