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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Doris Harris (114938)

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Name Harris, Doris (114938)
Date of birth 24 July 1924
Born Paddington, London
Joined WLA 12 April 1943
Left WLA 18 March 1946
WLA No. 114938
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Bolnhurst Hostel.
Married name Hills
Further information Former invoice clerk, aged 18. Transferred to Bedfordshire 7 May 1943. Demobilised.
Bolnhurst hostel

(L to r) Peggy Shaw and Doris Harris
Sunday 17 February, 1944

The wedding of land girl Olive Turner in London c.1944

The wedding of land girl Olive Turner in London c.1944
(l-r) Peggy Shaw, Grace Buckeridge, Mary Warner, Eric Sharp, Olive Sharp nee Turner (bride), Zeita Trott (bridesmaid), Doreen Kempster, Mabel Bone, Doris Harris

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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