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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Joyce Young

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Name Young, Joyce
Date of birth 13th March 1926
Born Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham
Joined WLA 29 July 1943
Left WLA 30 November 1950
WLA No. 133126
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at "Chimney Corner" hostel (Elstow/Houghton Conquest).
Married name Homan
Further Information Former laundry hand, aged 17. Transferred to Bedfordshire 31 August 1943. After disbandment of the Land Army, Joyce worked on the buses.
Two Bolnhurst Land Girls

Joyce Young and Joan Brown on Bedford Embankment

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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