Women's Timber Corps
A member of the Women's Timber Corps stripping bark from a felled tree to be used as a telegraph pole. | |
| Abbreviation | WTC |
|---|---|
| Established | 1942 |
| Dissolved | 1946 |
Region served | United Kingdom |
| Staff | 6,000 – 13,000 (1943) |
The Women's Timber Corps (WTC) was a British civilian organisation created during the Second World War to work in forestry, replacing men who had left to join the armed forces. Women who joined the WTC were commonly known as Lumber Jills or Lumberjills.