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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Joan Brown

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > B
Name Brown, Joan
Date of birth 3 December 1927
Place at enrolment North Shields, Northumberland
Joined WLA 7 April 1944
Left WLA 31 August 1944
WLA No. 142623
Trained  
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at "Chimney Corner" hostel (Elstow/Houghton Conquest), Bolnhurst and Sharnbrook hostels
Married name Knell
Further information Former drapery warehouse assistant.
Joan Brown at "Chimney Corner" hostel

Joan Brown at "Chimney Corner" hostel, near Houghton Conquest

Two Bolnhurst Land Girls

Joyce Young and Joan Brown on Bedford Embankment

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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