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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
G. Blay

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > B
Name Blay, G.
Date of birth Born 1919?
Place at enrolment Amhurst Park, London
Joined WLA 7 June 1940 (for active service)
Left WLA 30 October 1944
WLA No. 529
Trained [Not known]
Employed [Not known]
Married name [Not known]
Further information Joined aged 19[her low WLA number indicates that she put her name down before the war started – one of the first to sign up a part of the British Government's voluntary National Service plans] but then resigned 13 October 1939 before being called upon. Re-instated 7 June 1940 and took up active service as a land girl.
Transferred from London to Leicestershire 11 June 1940, then to Northamptonshire, then Bedfordshire 11 April 1944.

 


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