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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Constance Evelyn 'Peg' Hopkins

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Name Hopkins, Constance Evelyn 'Peg'
Date of birth 19 October 1916
Born London
Joined WLA 3 January 1942
Left WLA 30 November 1950
WLA No. 60588
Trained [Not known]
Employed By private farmers, Mr. C.E. James, Ashfield Farm, Keysoe and Bates' brothers, Staploe.
Married name O'Dell
Further information Former housekeeper, aged 25. Transferred to Bedfordshire 12 February 1942. Stayed on land when WLA disbanded. Took part in the WLA final parade at Buckingham Palace in October 1950 representing Bedfordshire.
Bates' Brothers, Staploe

(Left to Right) Constance 'Peg' Hopkins, Phyllis Read, Mrs Rene Marshall and Freda Carter, 1942.

Staploe land girls

Bates Brothers seed potato greenhouse, Staploe 1942
(l-r) Constance 'Peg' Hopkins, Mrs Rene Marshall (not a land girl), Phyllis Reed, Freda Carter

 


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