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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Edna Milton

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call> M
Name Milton, Edna
Date of birth 9 September 1922
Place at enrolment Upper Caldecote, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 24 January 1942
Left WLA 30 November 1950
WLA No. 63210
Trained [Not known]
Employed Privately at West End Farm, Silsoe.
Married name Eaststaff
Further information Former hairdresser, aged 19. Billeted at Silsoe Hostel, the Lodge, Wrest Park.  Worked with Daphne Ives.  Stayed on the land after the WLA disbanded.
Edna Milton Edna Milton and friends

Doris (?), Edna Milton and Molly (?)
Silsoe Hostel

Edna Milton with cow

Edna Milton with Dora the cow, April 1949.

Edna Milton and 'Northey Dewdrop Queen', Daphne Ives with 'Linwood Elspeth'

(l-r) Edna Milton and 'Northey Dewdrop Queen' and Daphne Ives with 'Linwood Elspeth'

 

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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