Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Ethel Lorna Eaton

Name	Eaton, Ethel Lorna
Date of birth	13 January 1919
Place at enrolment	Luton, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA	23 April 1942
Left WLA	18 June 1947
WLA No.	773398
Trained	[Not known]
Employed	Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Toddington Park hostel.
Married name	[Unmarried]
Further Information	Former shop assistant. Gained 92% in ploughing proficiency test. Carried away prizes in both Bedfordshire and other county ploughing competitions. Her team defeated a team of men at Woburn Park, early 1943. Demobilised. Died young, 1947.
Ethel Eaton, Bedfordshire's champion land girl plougher Girls win Ploughing Match First, second and third places in a ploughing match against experienced men at Woburn (Beds) were won by girls of the Women's Land Army - Ethel Eaton, Rhona Carter and Edith Catchlove (l-r) Toddington Park land girls, 1943 Back Row: Irene Mason (4th from right) Middle Row: Ethel Eaton (2nd from right), Doris Lane (2nd from left)

Page last updated: 10th June 2014

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land GirlsEthel Lorna Eaton