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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Elsie Mills

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Name Mills, Elsie
Date of birth 15 June 1928
Place at enrolment Oldham, Lancashire
Joined WLA 7 May 1947
Left WLA 20 December 1948
WLA No. 181840
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Clifton Hostel.
Married name Johnson
Further information Former cotton operative, aged 18. Transferred to Bedfordshire 17 May 1947.
Clifton land girls

(left to right) Elsie Mills, Joan Cloran, and Eileen Elliott at Clifton Hostel c. 1947

Guard of honour at wedding

Land girls guard of honour for a wedding at All Saints Church, Clifton, October 1947.
Front Row (l-r): First, Dorothy Hart, fourth along Joan Cloran, sixth along Elsie Mills, eighth along Eileen Elliott, third from right Margaret Piper
Back Row (l-r): Fourth along Ivy Whitehead, eighth along Gladys Park

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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