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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Barbara Harker

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > H
Name Harker, Barbara
Date of birth 29 April 1925
Place at enrolment Barnsley, Yorkshire
Joined WLA 24 August 1944
Left WLA 16 June 1950
WLA No. 149382
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House Hostel and Hasells Hall, Sandy.
Married name Martin
Further information Former housekeeper, aged 19. Transferred to Oxfordshire, then to Bedfordshire 23 October 1944. Transferred to London August 1948 then back to Bedfordshire 24 September 1948. Left on completion of contract.
Doreen Heales and Barbara Harker in the grounds of Cople House Hostel

(l-r) Doreen Heales and Barbara Harker in the grounds of Cople House Hostel

Barbara Harker, Doreen Heales and Joan Wood in the grounds of Cople House Hostel

(l-r) Barbara Harker, Doreen Heales and Joan Wood in the grounds of Cople House Hostel

Ailsa Hogg, Barbara Harkerand Kathleen Inker in the grounds of Cople House Hostel

(l-r) Ailsa Hogg, Barbara Harker and Kathleen Inker in the grounds of Cople House Hostel

 


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