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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Barbara Watson

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > W
Name Watson, Barbara
Date of birth Born 1927?
Place at enrolment Linton-on-Ouse, near York, Yorkshire
Joined WLA 11 July 1943
Left WLA 28 June 1946
WLA No. 34261
Trained On the job.
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag at Milton Ernest hostel.
Married name Unmarried
Further information Joined aged 16. Transferred to Bedfordshire from Yorkshire 16 October 1943. Demobilised. Died of meningitis, aged 21, soon after leaving the WLA.
Barbara Watson

Studio portrait of Barbara Watson

 


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