By Hind Hassan, Sky News Reporter
Hundreds of former Land Girls are expected to attend the unveiling of a tribute to their work during the First and Second World Wars.
A life-sized bronze sculpture will be revealed at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire today.
It honours members of the Women's Land Army (WLA) who worked on farms during the First and Second World Wars when conscription and military casualties led to a shortage of labourers.
James Shallcross is the assistant curator at the National Memorial Arboretum and told Sky News it was important to recognise the role Land Girls played during and after the two wars.
"The Women's Land Army was a major part of the effort to help the country in a time of conflict," he said.
"Without their help the nation would probably have starved and may well have not won the Second World War."
The memorial also honours Lumber Jills, the women who worked in forestry during the Second World War as part of the Women's Timber Corps.
The sculpture depicts a Lumber Jill linking arms with the Land Girl who is holding a pitchfork.
Mary Wright, 84, joined the WLA when she was 17, two years after the end of the Second World War.
"It was very physically demanding, but you were doing something for the country," she said.
"They needed women on the farms because there weren't enough labourers to do the work."
The sculpture was created by Denise Dutton and will be unveiled by HRH the Countess of Wessex.
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