Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Edith
Eleanor 'Biddy' Deighton
Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > D
Name | Deighton, Edith Eleanor 'Biddy' |
Date of birth | 20 April 1926 |
Born | Snaith, Yorkshire |
Joined WLA | 9 August 1944 |
Left WLA | 28 February 1946 |
WLA No. | 148770 |
Trained | At Ravensden (milking). |
Employed | Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House hostel, and by private farmer, Mr. Garner, at Home Farm, Cranfield, mainly milking. |
Married name | Cust |
Further information | Former boring machinist, aged 18. Transferred to Bedfordshire 16 September 1944, then to Essex and Yorkshire. |
Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author
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