Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Edith 'Hilda' Nicholson
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| Name | Nicholson, Edith 'Hilda' |
| Date of birth | 12 August 1921 |
| Place at enrolment | Stanley, County Durham |
| Joined WLA | 12 January 1940 |
| Left WLA | 29 September 1944 |
| WLA No. | 29133 |
| Trained | Ravensden |
| Employed | War Ag. at Chimney Corner Hostel, including work at Whipsnade Zoo |
| Married name | Bainbridge |
| Further information | Started the war making clothes for the army. Aged 18 on entry to the WLA. Based at Eaglecliff, County Durham. Transferred to Bedfordshire on 31 August
1943. Returned to County Durham 1 June 1944. Left on medical grounds. Married Ted Bainbridge. Died on 24 July 2020, aged 98. Edith 'Hilda' Nicholson's experiences as a Land Girl, and her life before and after joining the WLA, have been written up extensively in Lucy Fisher, Women in the War: The Last Heroines of Britain's Greatest Generation (Harpur Collins, 2021), under her married name as Hilda Bainbridge, pages 69 to 96. |
Photo of Edith 'Hilda' Nicholson c1940 
Photo of Edith 'Hilda' Nicholson reading Stuart Antrobus's book on the WW2 land girls in Bedfordshire on her 98th birthday. Photo by Helen Archer, her niece |
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