• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0405

Hodgson, Agnes

  • Occupation Community worker

Summary

Agnes Hodgson was superintendent of the Australian Women’s Land Army in Tasmania.

In 1940 she became the organising secretary when the Tasmanian government provided a grant to help establish the Agricultural Department’s research farm at Cressy as a training farm for land girls.

Archival resources

  • Australian War Memorial, Research Centre
    • Women's Land Army, Launceston, Tasmania

Published resources

  • Edited Book
    • Thanks girls and goodbye : the story of the Australian Women's Land Army 1942-45, Hardisty, Sue (ed.), 1990
  • Resource
    • Trove

Related entries


  • Related Organisations
    • Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA) (1942 - 1945)