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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Doreen 'Renie' Hirst

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Name Hirst, Doreen 'Renie'
Date of birth 3 February 1929
Place at enrolment Cleckheaton, Yorkshire
Joined WLA 16 May 1946
Left WLA 18 November 1949
WLA No. 168300
Trained On the job
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Bolnhurst hostel.
Married name Presland
Further information Former costing clerk, aged 17. Transferred to Bedfordshire 27 July 1946. Began at Ivy Lodge Nursery, Sharnbrook. Employed by Mr Keen - glasshouse work and chickens. Finished by working for Mr Mason at Brooke Farm, Bolnhurst. Left on completion of contract.
Doreen Hurst Bolnhurst - Land girl bathtime

(l to r) Doreen Hirst, Vera Jobling and Hilary Fenwick

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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