STRENUOUS WAR WORK
KNIGHT'S WIFE AS NAVVY • LONDON, Jan. 80 , The wife of a knight is working as a navvy at an aerodrome in the west of England. She is Lady Seymour, of Bratton, Wiltshire, wife of Sir Horace James Seymour, Assistant-Under-Sec-retary at the Foreign Office. Her age is between 40 and 50. Lady Seymour started work the other day as a member of a gang of 16. women engaged 7 on sweeping runways, laying drainpipes and wheeling barrows. She is to take over the job of driving a 40 h.p. tractor on the aerodrome." "1 volunteered as a mechanised tractor driver," she told the Daily Mirror. "I must admit I was horrorstrickln when I first saw the 90 h.p. tractors, because they looked so heavy. But 1 am going to have a lighter one. "The gang 1 nave been working with . for., the past three days are a grand crowd and are mostly village housewives. But 1 don't care where they come from as long as they are trying to give a helping hand in the war."*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24244, 9 April 1942, Page 4
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178STRENUOUS WAR WORK New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24244, 9 April 1942, Page 4
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