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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Gwendoline Hounslow Morris

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Name Morris, Gwendoline Hounslow
Date of birth 17 July 1924
Place at enrolment Luton, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 3 September 1943
Left WLA 30 May 1945
WLA No. 137649
Trained Ravensden House Hostel
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Whipsnade Hostel and Dagnall War Ag Farm.
Married name Norman
Further information Former shop assistant, aged 18.
See her WLA reminiscences on the BBC WW2 People's War website: Article ID A5505789.
Also see her privately published memoir: 'Bedfordshire Land Girls'. [A reference copy is available in Luton Central Library]
Book cover of Bedfordshire Land Girls by Gwen Norman (nee Morris)

Book cover of 'Bedfordshire Land Girls' by Gwen Norman

 


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