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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Doreen Mable Parish

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Name Parish, Doreen Mable
Date of birth 14 January 1928
Born Barnsley, Yorkshire
Joined WLA 25 September 1945
Left WLA 18 December 1947
WLA No. 160767
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds War Ag. at Cople House hostel.
Married name [Not known]
Further information Former domestic servant, aged 17. Transferred to Bedfordshire 13 October 1945. Demobilised.
Stageshow

Cople WLA Hostel concert party entertaining the troups at Kempston Barracks, 30 June 1947. [Source: L Freestone]
Back row: (l to r) ?, Joan Wood, Doreen Parish, Jean Sands, Joy Collard, Kathleen Inker, Edna _____?, 'Betty' Wallis, Grace Cross
Middle row: Mrs Truman [WLA Bedford HQ staff], ?, ?, Rose Perritt, Mona McKenna, Barbara Strike, ?, ? (with guitar), Dora ______?, ?, Olwyn Dinsdale, Mrs. Sharman [WLA Bedford HQ staff]
Front row: ?, Margaret Bandy, ?, (unknown man), ?, ?, ?, ?[WLA Bedford HQ staff?]

 


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