Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Elsie Muriel Allen

Name	Allen, Elsie Muriel
Date of birth	18 November 1924
Place at enrolment	Luton, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA	13 October 1943
Left WLA	30 November 1945
WLA No.	138276
Trained	[not known]
Employed	Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Bolnhurst Hostel and Cople House Hostel
Married name	[not known]
Further information	Former shop assistant. Aged 18 on entry.
Top Row: Margaret 'Peggy' Shaw Middle Row (l-r): Margaret 'Peggy' Deag, Ethel Sweenie Bottom Row (l-r): Phyllis Swanwick, Gladys Higgins, Vera Jobling, Grace Buckeridge, Elsie Allen 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 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?) Bolnhurst girls rick-making Dorothy Carlyle, Sheila Wilson, Elsie Allen, Doris Beevers

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