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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Marion Ellison

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > E
Name Ellison, Marion
Date of birth 9 May 1923
Place at enrolment Chorley, Lancashire
Joined WLA 28 August 1942
Left WLA 28 February 1946
WLA No. 96803
Trained Northamptonshire Institute of Agriculture, Moulton.
Employed Employed by Bedfordshire War Ag. at Bolnhurst Hostel.
Married name Unmarried
Further information Former grocer's assistant, aged 19. Transferred to Bedfordshire 29 January 1942. Demobilised.
Marion Ellison

Marion Ellison

Marion Ellison

Marion at Bridge Farm, Great Barford, November 1944

Doreen Kempster, Marion Ellison and JOyce Irving with calf

Doreen Kempster, Marion Ellison, Joyce Irving (l-r)

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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