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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Myra Griffiths

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > G
Name Griffiths, Myra
Date of birth 11 April 1926
Born Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, South Wales
Joined WLA 12 May 1943
Left WLA 18 March 1946
WLA No. 119644
Trained On the job.
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at  Hulcote Moors Hostel.
Married name Plester
Further information Former bookbinder, aged 17. Living in Bedford at enrolment. Demobilised. Drove tractors. Took Prisoners of War to work on farms.
Myra Griffiths, May Queen, 1945

Myra Griffiths, May Queen 1945, courtesy of Ampthill Images and Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Office

Myra Griffiths, May Queen, 1945

Myra Griffiths, May Queen, 1945

Myra Griffiths, May Queen, 1945 Hulcote Moors hostel group

Hulcote Moors hostel group with the Warden, Mrs Whatling, 1943
Back Row (l-r) Pamela Bell, Betty Hurst (?), Thelma Mathers, Vera Hull, Elizabeth Alice Braybrook, Myra Griffiths
Middle Row (l-r) Peggy Clark, Doris Bass, Edna Harris, Gladys Hinton (Housekeeper), Mrs E Watling (Warden), (Greta) Joyce Virgin, Hilda Virgin
Front Row (l-r) ?, Zoe Odell, Audrey Joan Hinde, Marjorie Prince, ?

 


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