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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Eileen O'Connell

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Name O'Connell, Eileen
Date of birth 15 August 1926
Place at enrolment Rotherhithe, London
Joined WLA 6 February 1946
Left WLA 17 May 1947
WLA No. 163956
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House Hostel.
Married name Lawrence
Further Information Former factory worker, aged 19. Transferred to Bedfordshire 2 March 1946. Left on compassionate grounds.
Cople Land Girls on the Embankment - Katleen Inker, Betty Wallis, Jean Sands, Eileen O'Connell

Cople House hostel land girls on the Bedford river embankment

(l-r)Kathleen Inker, Betty Wallis, Jean Sands, Eileen O'Connell

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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