Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Ethel Elizabeth Sweenie
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| Name | Sweenie, Ethel Elizabeth |
| Date of birth | 20 February 1927 |
| Place at enrolment | East Kilbride, Lanarkshire |
| Joined WLA | 3 June 1943 |
| Left WLA | 28 February 1946 |
| WLA No. | 123840 |
| Trained | On the job. |
| Employed | Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Bolnhurst hostel. |
| Married name | Wildey |
| Further information | Former clerk, aged 16 (said she was 17). Transferred from Southall, London to Bedfordshire 21 January 1944. Demobilised. |
Ethel (middle) with Grace Buckeridge (left) and Elsie Allen (right) 
Ethel during the war 
Wartime picnic (l to r) Grace Buckeridge, Ethel Sweenie, 'Buddy', Mary Warner and fiancé (?) Scales 
Top Row: Margaret 'Peggy' Shaw 
Ethel in 2002 |
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| Oral Reminiscence | Listen to Ethel's reminiscences
of life in the Bolnhurst hostel (42.3 MB).
Extract from interview with Stuart Antrobus. The full interview is lodged with the sound archive of the Imperial War Museum: Ethel Wildey (24663). |
Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author
Page last updated: 27th October 2014