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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Christine Sarah Shouler

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Name Shouler, Christine Sarah
Date of birth 5 March 1922
Place at enrolment Kempston, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 26 August 1942
Left WLA 29 December 1945
WLA No. 96499
Trained On the job
Employed Employed by Beds. War. Ag at Bolnhurst hostel.
Married name Ramsay
Further information Former shop assistant at Lyons Tea shop, aged 20. Left on compassionate grounds. Sister, Joan Alice Shouler, also joined the WLA.
Christien Shouler Bolnhurst group on lorry bonnet outside their hostel c1944

Bolnhurst group on lorry bonnet outside their hostel c1944
(l to r) Top: Doris Harris;
Middle row: Dorothy Carlyle, Chris Shouler, Vera Jobling, Elsie Allen
Bottom row: Joyce Irving, Marion Ellison, Mabel Frost, Grace Buckeridge

Bolnhurst land girls on the bonnet of a lorry

Caption: Mobile gang with their lorry outside Bolnhurst hostel, 1945
(l to r) Top row: Mabel Bone, Marion Ellison, Doris Harris, Grace Buckeridge
Middle left: Sheila Wilson
Bottom row: Dorothy Carlyle, Chris Shouler, Vera Jobling, Elsie (Allen?)

 


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