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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Winifred 'Winnie' Bentley

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > B
Name Bentley, Winifred 'Winnie'
Date of birth 24 March 1926
Place at enrolment Salford, Lancashire
Joined WLA 9 September 1946
Left WLA 18 August 1948
WLA No. 176419
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Milton Ernest and Bolnhurst Hostels.
Married name [Not known]
Further information Former 'taping', aged 20. Transferred to Bedfordshire 18 December 1946.
Winnie at the window

Winnie Bentley at the window.  She later married a German POW.

Winnie Bentley with a pitchfork

Winnie Bentley with a pitchfork

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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