PRE ORDER: This will ship April 13th 2026 or can be collected at Salute 2026 (choose Collect at Salute at the checkout)
In 1943, British-born Amelia King applied for the Land Army, the same as 200,000 other women over the course of the war. She was denied entirely on the basis of being Black. It would be romantic, and wrong, to believe that everybody came together to fight a common enemy during WW2 - but unfortunately discrimination by race as well as sex was still huge.
Some professions were more open than others, and it was suggested that Amelia worked in a Munitions factory, but she said:
"I said to them, if I'm not good enough to work on the land, then I am not good enough to make munitions. No one has ever suggested that my father and brother were not good enough to fight for the freedom of England."
Her local MP, Stoker Edwards, took her fight to the House of Commons and it was overruled, so she became one of the few Black women to serve in the Land Army. We've shown her here proudly holding her spade in the air, ready to Dig for Victory.
The pack consists of one single piece miniature, cast in high quality pewter. 28mm scale, supplied unpainted.
