Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Eva Marriott
Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > M
| Name | Marriott, Eva |
| Date of birth | 30 May 1923 |
| Place at enrolment | Bedford, Bedfordshire |
| Joined WLA | 29 March 1941 |
| Left WLA | 31 August 1943 |
| WLA No. | 40250 |
| Trained | On the job |
| Employed | Privately by Jack and Cyril Crouch at their farm at Cleat Hill, Ravensden. Also at the mushroom sheds at Ampthill. |
| Married name | Johnson, then Scarbrough |
| Further information | Former insulator, aged 18. Did milking and general farm work with two other land girls, Margaret Tack and Vera Caves. Briefly worked with Dora Carlyle at the Three Counties Hospital farm, Arlesey. Married a GI, who was based during WWII at Thurleigh Airfield, and moved to the USA. First husband died in 1956 in a car accident. Later remarried in 1959. Retired to Pikeville, Tennessee. |
Eva married Houston Johnson in Bedford in 1943, with Eileen and Margie Burraway as bridesmaids. |
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Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author
Page last updated: 29th August 2014