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A statue of a felled tree and two lumberjills. A memorial to the lumberjills – the women who worked in forestry during Second World War. The Women’s Timber Service was set up during the First World War, but in April 1942 the Ministry of Supply (Home Grown Timber Department) set up a new venture – the Women’s Timber Corps in England. Part of the Women’s Land Army, this was a new unit with its own identity and uniform, which included a green beret to distinguish them. Home-grown timber was needed for the war effort and was used in everything from telegraph poles, pit props, packaging boxes for military supplies and weapons, gun butts, canon carriage wheels, Mosquito and Spitfire combat aircraft and shipbuilding. The charcoal was also used for explosives and in the production of gas masks.

Title

Pull Don't Push

Date

2013

Medium

Corten steel

Accession number

YO18_FM_S006

Acquisition method

commissioned by The Forestry Commission

Work type

War memorial

Owner

The Forestry Commission

Custodian

The Forestry Commission

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Signature/marks description

signed on the side of the log: Ray Lonsdale / 2013

Inscription description

metal plaque affixed to wooden upright: PULL DON'T PUSH / "Yes you're very clever, / now pack in and get down. / You are here to be a lumberjill, / not a circus clown. / We need to get a move on / and the blade bites it if you rush. / And for the love of god remember / to pull and never push." / Sculpture by Ray Lonsdale, / for the Forestry Commission / to commemorate the lumberjills / of WW2

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