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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Edna Josephine Harris

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Name Harris, Edna Josephine
Date of birth 11 June 1924
Place at enrolment Wootton, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 19 June 1943
Left WLA 1 June 1945
WLA No. 126429
Trained On the job.
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at  Hulcote Moors Hostel
Married name Robinson
Further information Living at Stewartby, Bedfordshire. Former club assistant, aged 19. Remembers American servicemen attending dances at Stewartby village hall. Resigned on medical grounds.
Edna Harris Hulcote Girls welcome the first American servicemen

Hulcote Girls welcome the first American servicemen
L to R Marjorie Prince, Peggy Clark, Thelma Mathers, Pearl Wright, Edna Harris, Doris Bass

Hulcote Moors hostel group

Hulcote Moors hostel group with the Warden, Mrs Whatling, 1943
Back Row (l-r) Pamela Bell, Betty Hurst (?), Thelma Mathers, Vera Hull, Elizabeth Alice Braybrook, Myra Griffiths
Middle Row (l-r) Peggy Clark, Doris Bass, Edna Harris, Gladys Hinton (Housekeeper), Mrs E Watling (Warden), (Greta) Joyce Virgin, Hilda Virgin
Front Row (l-r) ?, Zoe Odell, Audrey Joan Hinde, Marjorie Prince, ?

 


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