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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Betty Gray

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > G
Name Gray, Betty
Date of birth 7 December 1921
Born Luton, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 20 December 1941
Left WLA 18 August 1948
WLA No. 59345
Trained On the job.
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Milton Ernest hostel and by private farmers at Manor Farm & Inions Farm, Caddington.
Married name Nicholls
Further information Former dressmaker, aged 20. Preferred working on private farms and living at home to hostel life. Joined with friend Jean Tompkins. Demobilised.
Betty Gray

Betty in the 1940s

Clare Samm and Betty Gray harvesting at Manor Farm

Clare Fletcher and Betty Gray at Manor Farm, Cardington.

Betty Gray

Betty in 2002

 


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