Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Rose Perritt

Name	Perritt, Rose
Date of birth	9 June 1915
Born	Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Joined WLA	7 August 1943
Left WLA	30 November 1950
WLA No.	134339
Trained	[Not known]
Employed	Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House hostel.
Married name	[Not known]
Further information	Former biscuit factory worker, aged 28. Transferred to Bedfordshire 30 August 1943. Stayed on the land when WLA disbanded. She wrote the poem entitled 'The Women's Land Army' for the 1946 Bedfordshire WLA calendar.
Rose in Cople Hostel Group Photo, c. 1940s Cople WLA Hostel concert party entertaining the troups at Kempston Barracks, 30 June 1947. [Source: L Freestone] Back row: (l to r) ?, Joan Wood, Doreen Parish, Jean Sands, Joy Collard, Kathleen Inker, Edna _____?, 'Betty' Wallis, Grace Cross Middle row: Mrs Truman [WLA Bedford HQ staff], ?, ?, Rose Perritt, Mona McKenna, Barbara Strike, ?, ? (with guitar), Dora ______?, ?, Olwen Dinsdale, Mrs. Sharman [WLA Bedford HQ staff] Front row: ?, Margaret Bandy, ?, (unknown man), ?, ?, ?, ?[WLA Bedford HQ staff?]

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