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Bella Sutherland Murray
Land Army
A few memories as told by my Mother, Bella Sutherland Campbell (nee Murray).
Mum joined the Land Army in 1939. She first worked at Shandon Farm, Croftamie, Scotland. The farm belonged to a Mrs Orr and Mum refers to the farm as “McKinley’s Farm”. Next she worked at Major Kirkwood’s farm at Darnly Mains, Thornlybank, near Renfrew, Scotland and then at Mc Causlin’s Farm, (not the correct spelling), Kirkmichael, Helensburgh, Scotland.
Mum met her husband, William “Willie” Jack and married on the 25 December 1941. For a time thereafter she worked at “Sannie” Simpson’s Garden Centre, Helensburgh before she left the Land Army.
A magazine during the 50’s/60’s featured Mum in an article entitled “When Miss Murray Talks About Farms She Talks About Calves”. Mum thought the article might have appeared in the Country Life magazine.